Founding Engineer

Accountabilities:

• Own the development and continuous improvement of the platform supporting AI-powered renewable energy diligence and project evaluation.

• Work directly with customers to understand their challenges, gather feedback, and translate business needs into practical product improvements.

• Design, develop, and deploy features across the entire product experience, including customer-facing interfaces, analyst tools, and expert reviewer workflows.

• Build and maintain scalable full-stack applications, contributing to both frontend and backend architecture.

• Develop and operate AI-assisted document review, information retrieval, and diligence workflows.

• Implement systems that ensure customer data remains isolated, securely managed, access-controlled, and fully auditable.

• Build reliable document processing and information extraction capabilities, ensuring that AI-generated claims are supported by verifiable source documents.

• Design workflows that identify unsupported questions or uncertain information and efficiently escalate them to qualified expert reviewers.

• Implement measurable experiments to assess product changes, monitor AI accuracy, and identify potential performance regressions.

• Take ownership of technical decisions, contribute to product direction, and establish engineering practices that support the platform's long-term growth.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally within a startup environment as a founding engineer or early engineering team member.

• Strong full-stack development experience, with the ability to build and maintain both frontend and backend applications.

• Hands-on experience with AI-powered applications, particularly agent architectures, large language models (LLMs), and AI-driven workflows.

• Experience developing document processing, retrieval, information extraction, or automated document analysis systems.

• Familiarity with technologies such as Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.

• Understanding of secure application architecture, including data isolation, access control, and auditability.

• Ability to build reliable AI systems that prioritize accuracy, source-grounded outputs, and appropriate human review.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and independently deliver solutions.

• A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to take ownership across product development, engineering, and customer interactions.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working directly with customers and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Experience or exposure to fintech, legaltech, proptech, renewable energy, or infrastructure technology is an advantage.

• Ability to work effectively within North American time zones.

Benefits:

• Competitive annual base salary ranging from $130,000 to $150,000 USD.

• Meaningful equity participation, offering the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success.

• Fully remote working arrangement, with Canada as the primary location.

• Opportunity to join an early-stage company as a founding engineering team member.

• Significant ownership over product development, architecture, and technical decision-making.

• Direct collaboration with customers, domain experts, and product stakeholders.

• Opportunity to build innovative AI-powered technology within the renewable energy and infrastructure sector.

• The chance to contribute to solutions that help accelerate renewable energy project development and financing.