Founding Engineer

Startrace is a fast-moving AI startup seeking a Founding Engineer to join the team.

You’ll play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling our core systems - from LLM-driven pipelines to cloud infrastructure and data workflows. You’ll have end-to-end ownership of technical initiatives that directly influence our product, architecture, and future direction.

Startrace is building the world’s B2B intelligence layer - an AI-native platform that delivers near insider-level understanding of any company. Our system helps finance, go-to-market, and strategy teams see beyond surface-level data and operate with clarity.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build backend infrastructure and cloud-based services in Python
• Create data pipelines for large-scale web scraping, collection, and enrichment
• Develop LLM-powered applications, including agent-based systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Lead decisions on architecture, tools, and technical direction
• Collaborate closely with the founding team to shape product direction
• Establish engineering practices and help set the foundation for engineering culture

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building production systems in Python
• Strong background in backend architecture and systems design
• Familiarity with LLM concepts such as prompt engineering, agents, and RAG
• Independent mindset with the ability to take full ownership of complex initiatives
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, early-stage environment
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset - you’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and making things work quickly

What You’ll Get

• Significant ownership over the architecture, backend systems, and product
• Direct collaboration with founders on product and technical strategy
• Opportunity to define engineering standards, tooling, and team culture
• Deep technical challenges across AI, data, and infrastructure
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity