About Firsthand

Firsthand is the AI agent platform purpose-built for publishers and brands. The company’s innovative platform allows publishers and brands to protect, control, and deploy their data and content across direct conversational campaigns that are powered by custom AI agents, and distributed anywhere a consumer is seeking information online.

Founded by digital advertising veterans and funded by AI pioneers, Firsthand is focused on building the data and agent infrastructure that will power consumer interactions in the AI era.

This role is based in New York City. We work together in person three days a week.

About the Role

We’re at the stage of recruiting founding engineers! As a highly motivated web engineer, you will be instrumental in building the web components to supercharge our system.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

• Develop and maintain high-quality web applications using modern web technologies and frameworks.

• Ensure quality through thorough automated testing to support critical business operations.

• Manage deployment, monitoring, and reliability to be responsible for the full lifecycle of the web product.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of professional work experience as a web engineer.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Rock-solid comprehension of software engineering fundamentals. Proficiency in a few programming languages. JavaScript and Python are strongly preferred.

• Deep experience in web development, including both frontend and backend. Experience in one of the major frontend frameworks such as React/Next.js/Vue.

• Proficient with relational databases such as Postgres.

• Strong communication skills. Good at writing concise documents.

• Desire and passion to work in an early-stage startup. Comfortable handling ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

How to Apply

If you are ready to embark on an exhilarating journey at the forefront of AI, seize this incredible opportunity and apply here. We eagerly anticipate hearing from you!

Note: Compensation and equity will be market-competitive for seed-stage funded startups and will be discussed during the interview process.