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Founding Engineer, Full Stack

Dili
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 May 2025
💰 $180,000/yr($120,000/yr$180,000/yr)

About the role

Skills: JavaScript, Python, React

About Us

We're a YC-backed startup simplifying compliance for clean energy projects. Our platform streamlines prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, helping clients maximize tax incentives and accelerate sustainable energy adoption.

About the Role

Dili is seeking a driven founding engineer to be our first hire. As a founding engineer, you will work with us to develop the next generation of our product. You will play a critical role in defining our engineering culture and scaling the team as we grow.

Responsibilities

  • UI/UX: Implement websockets and SSEs to build real-time beautiful UX for our customers. Plot trends, surface insights, and implement advanced search and filtering capabilities based on natural language.
  • Working with LLMs: Refine our document processing pipeline to extract data. Draw from the latest research on VRDU to improve our extraction speed and accuracy. Build specialized agents to derive key metrics from data. Fine tune open-source models for task specialization.
  • External Integrations: Build seamless integrations with existing systems to help customers onboard and gather all of their data in one place.
  • Observability: Implement best practices for deploying LLMs in production and evaluating prompt performance.

App Stack

  • Django, NextJS, AWS, Postgres, Langchain, Docker, Terraform

You may be a good fit if:

  • You are a generalist with strong computer science fundamentals
  • You can take ownership and work through ambiguity to independently drive projects to completion
  • You have previous experience at an early-stage startup and can wear multiple hats
  • You are interested in and keep up-to-date with the best practices for large-language models

Bonus

  • You have built data processing pipelines
  • You have built real-time apps

In-office or remote?

We like the hybrid model and are looking for candidates who feel the same. We come in 2x a week and our office is conveniently located in Union Square.

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