Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Company: Rilla

Location: New York, NY (in person 5 days per week)

Compensation: $193,000 - $258,000 + 0.03% - 0.06% equity

Employment Type: Full-time

Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers; open to all visa types

About Rilla

Rilla invented the virtual ridealong, turning offline, in-person sales conversations into actionable data for industries such as roofing, HVAC, pharma, retail and CPG. Its AI works at the intersection of speech recognition, mobile audio and large-scale distributed systems, including real-time coaching in noisy multi-speaker environments.

Founded in 2019 and backed by GV, Rilla went from $0 to $40M+ ARR in under three years with 15%+ month-over-month growth and 170%+ net revenue retention, and is already profitable. It has about 110 people, including roughly 20 engineers, and has raised a $60M Series B.

The Role

Rilla is hiring software engineers (1-3 years) who architect and ship features across the stack at high speed, building end-to-end workflows, taking them to production and solving real-world problems at scale. As an early technical steward you will raise the bar for code quality and decision-making, and your scope will grow as fast as the company.

What You Will Do

• Build high-quality products very fast across React, React Native, TypeScript and Python.
• Build new features from scratch as the technical roadmap moves forward.
• Talk with customers and build solutions for their real problems with minimal explicit planning.
• Set a high bar for code quality and technical decisions as the engineering team scales.
• Help recruit future engineers.

What You Bring

• 1-3 years building software, with strong pedigree signals and clear entrepreneurial drive
• Experience at a talent-dense startup or building 0-to-1 products
• React, React Native, TypeScript and Python
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure
• Speed without sacrificing quality
• A customer-first mindset
• Excitement to work long hours in person in New York 5 days a week

Nice to Have

• CS degree from a top university
• Deploying infrastructure on AWS
• Hackathons, entrepreneurship clubs, VC fellowships or competitive athletics
• Production React Native apps

Interview Process

Recruiter screen (45 min), culture deck review (30 min), technical screen (60 min), on-site (30 min), CEO screen, reference checks.

Tech Stack

TypeScript, React, React Native, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, SQL, Turborepo, GitHub Actions, Terraform

REVENUE: 14% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $27K-$36K; 13 seat(s) = up to $410K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Ramp, Retool, Notion, Figma, YC startups (early engineers), Gong.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 1-3 yrs; talent-dense startup or 0-to-1 builder; React/React Native/TS/Python; entrepreneurial drive; visa: transfers; all types; location: NYC 5 days. Production React Native delivery is the scarce signal; avoid big-tech-only.