Founding Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

As a Founding Engineer at Nuanced, you will not just build infrastructure—you will shape the future of our company. You’ll have the autonomy to lead key projects, influence technical strategy, and lay the foundations of our engineering team culture. This role demands a balance of strategic product thinking and fast implementation. You will drive the design, development, and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure supporting our applications and APIs.

We’re looking for someone passionate about our mission, eager to build robust, scalable systems, and dedicated to working closely with customers to integrate our solutions and iterate based on their feedback.

What you’ll be working on

1. API Infrastructure Development: Design and deploy robust APIs, ensuring efficient and secure data flow across various platforms.

2. Scalable System Architecture: Build and manage scalable compute infrastructure, optimizing resource allocation and performance.

3. DevOps and Automation: Implement comprehensive test coverage, monitoring, logging, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

4. Security and Compliance: Ensure stringent security measures and compliance with relevant regulations, protecting data integrity and user privacy.

5. Customer Integration and Support: Collaborate with customers to integrate solutions seamlessly into their systems, providing ongoing support and customization.

Requirements

- Experience: 6+ years of experience building high availability systems at a senior/staff or comparable level.

- Education: Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree program.

- Technologies: Fluent in Python, Javascript. Proven experience in designing and building cloud infrastructure using AWS, preferably experienced with API Gateway, Lambda, SageMaker, ECS, ECR, etc but not a must.

- Strong engineering background. You are familiar with best practices, design patterns, and can document and communicate clearly about what you're building.

About you

1. Strong sense of urgency: Building the technical foundation of a company in a competitive and high-stakes landscape requires executing and delivering high-quality solutions to customers swiftly.

2. High agency, high accountability: As an early-stage startup, the ability to be a self-starter, take ownership, and deliver results despite incomplete or uncertain requirements is crucial.

3. Adaptability: The startup environment is dynamic and ever-changing, necessitating a willingness to revisit ideas, pivot, rebuild, and evolve with the company.

4. Product focus: Ensuring alignment with business goals and meeting customer needs from the user’s perspective is essential for driving the product's success and growth.

5. Collaborative and intensely conscientious. You’re team-oriented, encouraging, and prioritize collective success over individual recognition.

Why join us

- Be a founding member of a groundbreaking startup addressing one of the most critical challenges of our age.

- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and contribute to impactful research in a deep problem space.

- Competitive salary and equity package.

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Why not join us

As a rapidly growing early-stage start-up, we know we're not for everyone. You should not apply if you:

- Seek comfort over challenge: If you prefer a structured, predictable work environment with well-defined tasks and minimal ambiguity, this startup role might not be suitable. Our early-stage environment requires flexibility, resilience, and a willingness to embrace uncertainty.

- Prefer limited work hours: If you are looking for a standard 9-to-5 job, this role may not be for you. Building something truly impactful requires dedication, long hours, and often going above and beyond. The commitment needed here is substantial.

- Require dependency on direct supervision: If you require constant direction and supervision to complete tasks, this role will be challenging. We need self-starters who can take initiative, identify problems, and drive solutions independently.

- Dislike candor. You can expect honest conversations regularly about what is going well, what isn’t going well, and what could be better. No surprises. We expect this honesty to flow in both directions and want to hear from you: how can the product, tools, processes, or culture be better?