Founding Engineer – EdTech Startup

**Early in your career, sharp on backend, and ready to own whole systems? Start here.** A fast-growing startup in New York builds software for K-12 education. In its first year it went from zero to dozens of school districts, and it works directly with the schools that use it. You'd be the first full-time engineer, designing the architecture together with the CTO and owning complete systems from day one. **What you'll own** * Backend architecture across messy, legacy school data sources that don't come with a clean API * Integrations built with scraping, browser automation and sync jobs, and making them reliable * Making things robust: retry logic, queues and the race conditions in between * Whole systems end to end, plus regular visits to schools **Must-haves** * Your strength is backend and system design, more than front end * You reason clearly out loud and speak fluent English. The live interview is a spoken system design. * You welcome very direct feedback * On-site in New York, daily * Roughly 1–5 years of experience; early-career engineers are preferred **Bonus points** * Hackathon wins or side projects you shipped * Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or other browser automation * Node, TypeScript or Firebase; mobile system APIs (Flutter, iOS, Android) are a plus * Experience with school systems or ed-tech **What's in it for you** * $140k–$220k base, plus 0.5–1.5% equity * A founding role with real ownership of architecture * A clear mission in education, with direct contact with the people you build for **Good to know** * Full-time, on-site in New York, 9-9-6 * Sponsorship is limited: please tell us your exact work authorization up front Process: first call with the CEO spoken system design session, usually without coding two-day work trial (paid)* offer **When you apply, please include** * Your CV (PDF) and your **LinkedIn URL**, plus GitHub or a portfolio if you have one * An integration you designed against a messy source without a clean API * Your current location, and confirmation that working on-site in New York daily works for you * Your visa or citizenship status, and if you'll need sponsorship, now or in the future * Your base salary expectation, your earliest start date, and any other interview processes you're in Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days. RnB Consultancy | Netherlands | 3604 AB Maarssen | KvK 71489703