Founding Engineer - Scend

The role

You will work with founders to shape product and architecture from the ground up. You will design scalable APIs, build AI-powered systems, and manage infrastructure.

What you will do

• Architect scalable, high-performance APIs to serve financial data and turn them into product features
• Generate datasets and research reports using LLMs
• Apply evals and fine-tuning to drive accuracy
• Process large datasets using Airflow, Pandas, and Spark
• Develop high-scale systems for crawling sites and docs from the web
• Manage infrastructure with Terraform, Docker, AWS ECS, and monitoring tools

Required qualifications

• 2+ years building scalable software systems
• Expertise in Python and SQL

Nice to have

• Comfortable with data processing frameworks (Airflow, Pandas, Spark)
• Familiarity with infra automation tools (Terraform, Docker)
• Background in LLM systems and Machine Learning

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation & Equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Environment
• Early Team Influence
• Investment in growth (courses, books, conferences)
• Team events, offsites, and socials
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Scend is on a mission to modernize M&A and bring efficiency to private markets. The team is backed by Pear VC.