Zania
Founding Senior Software Engineer
5mo ago
120000 –230000 USD / yearUSASenior
Founding Senior Software Engineer focusing on building AI-driven governance, risk, and compliance solutions.
Responsibilities
- As a Software Engineer, you will be a core member of our engineering team, building the backend systems that power both our core product and our agentic AI platform. This is a backend-focused role for engineers who thrive on solving challenges at a massive scale; full-stack experience is a strong plus. You will design, build, and deploy the critical infrastructure and services that handle everything from petabyte-scale data retrieval to running thousand-step AI agents. This is a unique opportunity to tackle some of the most demanding problems in computing today and build systems with government-level security and reliability.
- Engineer Core Product Features: Take ownership of building and delivering scalable, secure backend services that directly power our user-facing product.
- Build Petabyte-Scale AI Pipelines: Design and implement robust systems for retrieval over petabyte-scale document troves and engineer pipelines for large-scale data collection.
- Develop Advanced Agentic Systems: Build the backend infrastructure for complex, 1000-step planning agents that help companies with critical processes, and create organizational-level interfaces for human-AI collaboration.
- Contribute to the architecture and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Engineer systems with the highest standards of security and reliability to protect the world's most sensitive data.
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (not intended for recent graduates).
- Proven Technical Impact: A demonstrated track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems.
- Product Building Experience: You have a history of building and launching robust products or platforms, ideally in a hyper-growth or 0-to-1 startup environment.
- Deep Technical Expertise: You are a hands-on, highly technical backend engineer with proficiency in:
- Python: For building robust backend services and AI pipelines.
- Large-Scale Systems: Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark), and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- TypeScript and React: Experience is a plus for contributing across the stack but is not required.
- Ownership and Drive: You take full ownership of your projects, demonstrating a strong bias for action and the ability to manage complex priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You are a proactive and resourceful problem-solver who is comfortable with ambiguity and sees immense challenges as opportunities for growth.
- Clear Communication: You can articulate complex technical ideas clearly and persuasively to stakeholders across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems
- Hands-on proficiency in Python and experience with large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — you will collaborate across engineering, product, and AI research teams and must articulate technical ideas clearly to a range of stakeholders
Conditions
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Meals and snacks in the office
- Relocation and immigration support
- Zania is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
Other
- Every enterprise spends millions of dollars on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). It's one of the most critical, yet universally painful, parts of running a business. For decades, this industry has been dominated by legacy systems with notoriously low NPS scores, making it totally ripe for disruption.
- Zania is building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) to solve this massive problem. We are on a rocketship trajectory , creating intelligent agents that automate and augment the most complex risk and compliance workflows. We have found exceptional product-market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Zania are:
- Dream Customers: Our customers are the most notable enterprises in the world, including FAANG, Big 4 firms and a portfolio of top customers.
- Tier 1 Backing: Funded by a leading Tier 1 venture capital fund, giving us the resources to build a generational company.
- World-Class Team: Zania is hiring the best. Our team includes AI and Security leaders from Airbnb, Microsoft, Bain & Company, Deloitte, PwC, Brex, and Instacart.
- Pioneering Technology: Our engineers and GRC experts work at the absolute forefront of applied AI, building the next generation of agentic systems that will define the future of compliance.
- Hyper-Growth: We have seen 10x ARR growth in the last year and are rapidly expanding.
- Competitive Compensation & Equity.