Founding Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Founding Engineer based in Canada . As a Founding Engineer, you will play a central role in building an AI-powered platform transforming how renewable energy projects are evaluated and financed. You will take ownership of the end-to-end product experience, from customer-facing applications to the underlying technical infrastructure. Working directly with customers, analysts, and expert reviewers, you will turn real-world needs into innovative product features. You will develop intelligent document processing and AI-assisted diligence workflows that make complex information more accessible, accurate, and actionable. This is an exciting opportunity to join an early-stage team, influence technical and product strategy, and help accelerate investment in renewable energy and critical infrastructure. You will have significant ownership and the opportunity to shape a product from the ground up. 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.