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Software Engineer at Root Access in New York City, NY
Skills
Job Description
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join the founding team to own the core agent and data systems development. This is an intense role that will be fun for the right person. You will have a lot of autonomy and build across the stack.
Who You Are
You’re a Software Engineer who has a strong grasp on building systems and handling large amounts of data, with a desire to get hands-on with advanced AI/ML work.
What You’ll Build
Implement the core agent architecture (state, tools, workflows, evaluations)
Lead the infrastructure development on AWS / GCP and other cloud providers
Contribute across both the backend and frontend of the product
Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines that turn messy inputs into structured, usable context
Integrate LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructure into production systems
Build guardrails, evals, and observability to ensure reliability, performance, and cost control
Work closely with founders and product to translate real user needs into shipped functionality
You likely have:
3+ years of experience as a backend, platform, or infrastructure engineer
Strong fundamentals in data structures, APIs, async systems, and distributed services
Experience building production data pipelines, ETL systems, or search/retrieval infrastructure
Strong capability working with Python and TypeScript in production
Ideal to have:
Experience in a startup building a product
Background in developer tools, infra, or technical products
Experience handling unstructured or domain-specific data