at Firsthand
Full TimeFirsthand is building the industry's first AI-powered Brand Agent platform that transforms how advertisers and publishers engage with consumers, anywhere online. Through Brand Agents, Firsthand leverages a company's knowledge to support consumers at any point in their journey – answering questions, solving problems, and guiding decisions – while keeping the company in control of their brand experience.
Firsthand's founding team brings unparalleled expertise in building transformative adtech platforms. Co-CEOs Jon Heller and Michael Rubenstein previously created ventures that now power the advertising businesses of today's tech giants: DoubleClick Ad Exchange became the foundation of Google's $200B+ advertising business, AppNexus evolved into Microsoft Advertising's global platform, and FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast) transformed streaming TV advertising. This track record of creating industry-defining companies uniquely positions Firsthand to pioneer the next evolution in consumer engagement.
Built with a focus on control and security, Firsthand's platform safeguards a company's data, voice, and customer relationships. At its core, Lakebed™ – our AI-first data and knowledge rights management solution – powers custom Brand Agents that transform protected company information into dynamic, personalized consumer engagements, seamlessly integrated into the user's online experience.
Firsthand is headquartered in NYC. Most team members come to the office to work together three days a week.
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.
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.
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 well-capitalized, early stage startups and will be discussed during the interview process.
