Profound
Founding Software Engineer - Web
Full time
Onsite
Teammates
Dylan Babbs
Location
Description

This is an in-person position in New York City. No remote.

Profound is an AI Visibility start-up based in NYC. We're moving fast and hiring the best in the city to come and build our company from the ground up.

If you want face pace, excitement, days full of action and to experience getting into a high-growth startup in the earliest stages, this is for you.

Company Overview

Millions of consumers now use AI Search like ChatGPT to discover brands, research products, and inform purchase decisions.Profound is a new tool that helps businesses understand and improve their presence in AI Answers.

By running high-volume inference, Profound builds a picture of how these AI systems surface brands, products, and industries. Profound then crawls the internet to find related sources and citations, providing actionable insights for brand-owners to improve their performance over time.

💰 Just closed $3.5M seed round investment. Backed by big name VCs like Khosla + Saga Ventures + South Park Commons & angels: Scott Belsky + Balaji S. + Karim Atiyeh

📈 Strong early customer traction / revenue

🤝 Team is ex-Uber and exited founder

🗽 Based in NYC (Manhattan) - in person 5 days a week

Read more about us here:

Position Overview

We're looking to hire a Founding Software Engineer to build out our web platform. Your primary area of focus will be the Profound Dashboard, a set of tools to help enterprise brands understand and improve their AI Visibility.

You should be an incredibly talented and fast software engineer, with an added emphasis on front-end development skills. You should have an eye for design and want to build out beautiful and effective products.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years experience as a software engineer building real products with real users

  • Expertise working with tools like TypeScript, React, Supabase, Vercel

  • Someone who can build insanely fast

  • Ability to translate vague business requirements into high quality code and product, including building out nice UX without the help of a designer

  • An incredible portfolio of existing high quality, converting, and beautiful work.

  • A passion for building stellar products