Founding Software Engineer
New York City$160k - $220k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Founding software engineer at Ryvn, a YC-backed startup in New York City, building distributed deployment infrastructure for mission-critical software. Role involves end-to-end ownership of system design, architecture, and production-grade delivery across healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Build at scale: Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments
- Shape the foundation: Work directly with the founding team to define Ryvn’s technical direction and architecture
- Solve and streamline: Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions — with the autonomy to ship fast and keep our technology ahead of the curve
- Own complex systems: Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure
- Balance tradeoffs: Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully — balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability and impact
Qualifications
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Full-stack fluency: Comfortable across web frameworks, APIs, and databases in multiple programming languages
- Strong technical judgment: Able to make pragmatic, well-reasoned tradeoffs to drive projects forward
- Ownership mindset: You take initiative, see problems through, and care deeply about the systems you build
Skills
Required:3+ years software developmentFull-stack developmentTechnical judgment
Benefits
- Life at Ryvn: Fully in-person team in NYC
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Annual professional development stipend
- Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee
- Annual retreats and team offsites
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Ryvn
Easy and secure customer cloud deployments
Ryvn provides the devtools and infrastructure to easily deploy any workload, on any cloud, and on-prem. Run apps in your own cloud and offer Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) to your customers in minutes, with built-in observability designed for sensitive industries.
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