True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Engineer

New York
Salary
$200,000 - $400,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · New York
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 29 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an established, profitable trading platform as its first engineering hire. You will build the systems behind real-time pricing and trading in the live events ticketing sector, where product improvements can affect business outcomes quickly.

What You'll Do

  • Build and own core platform systems, including the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading.
  • Turn interactive model research into continuously running AI research pipelines.
  • Develop A/B testing frameworks for pricing and improve bidding system throughput.
  • Create AI-powered operational systems for automated triage, production incident response, and model drift detection.

What We're Looking For

  • Three to ten years of post-graduate software engineering experience, with a record of strong performance and career growth.
  • Experience in platform engineering and building or operating data-intensive production systems, ideally using Python.
  • Familiarity with real-time systems, data pipelines, classical machine learning, and agentic AI developer workflows.
  • Experience at a high-growth startup or in a strong engineering organization solving challenging technical problems.
  • Strong data intuition, curiosity about business outcomes, and the ability to use data to inform pricing or product decisions.
  • Comfort challenging decisions constructively and a history of continuous employment.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and interest in live events such as concerts or sports.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in New York, New York.

What this role asks for

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 107 open in Client Roles. 107 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (57 of 107), TypeScript (43 of 107), LLM (37 of 107), React (37 of 107), Machine Learning (26 of 107), JavaScript (23 of 107), AWS (22 of 107)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

48 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 150,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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