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 escalates 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.
Benefits:
Competitive annual base salary ranging from $130,000 to $150,000 USD.
Meaningful equity participation, offering the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success.
Fully remote working arrangement, with Canada as the primary location.
Opportunity to join an early-stage company as a founding engineering team member.
Significant ownership over product development, architecture, and technical decision-making.
Direct collaboration with customers, domain experts, and product stakeholders.
Opportunity to build innovative AI-powered technology within the renewable energy and infrastructure sector.
The chance to contribute to solutions that help accelerate renewable energy project development and financing.
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