Founding Software Engineer

About Flotive AI A solar farm sits dead for eight months because someone missed a county setback ordinance buried on page 340 of a zoning code. A transmission line gets rerouted, at a cost of millions, because an environmental filing cited the wrong watershed. A data center waits months for power because a utility and developer are working from different versions of the interconnection rules. This isn’t an engineering problem or a capital problem— it’s an information problem. The rules that determine whether America gets built are scattered across thousands of agencies and millions of pages of regulatory text. Searching, cross‑referencing, and verification has become the primary determinant of how long it takes a project to get built. Mission Help society build and run infrastructure while maintaining the highest standards of safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance. About the role As a Founding Software Engineer at Flotive, you will work closely with the co‑founders (Francis and Akshay), other engineers, and subject‑matter experts to understand customer requirements, own and make decisions on technical architecture before anyone else gets hired to weigh in on it. You will build a system that ingests regulatory documents at scale, extracts structured knowledge, tracks geographic and jurisdictional context, and produces workflows that customers can trust and verify. What you will do Build pipelines that discover, ingest, classify, and monitor regulatory changes across federal, state, and local governments Create structured permitting workflows that translate regulatory requirements into clear steps, decision points, dependencies, and permit pathways Develop AI workflows that pull structured, explainable knowledge out of dense regulatory text and make them actionable Build APIs connecting that regulatory intelligence to our mapping and workflow product Design systems for processing large geospatial and regulatory datasets efficiently Make architecture decisions that balance moving fast now against not painting ourselves into a corner later What we are looking for 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with significant ownership over production systems for enterprise or consumer software Experience designing search systems and working with GraphQL, REST APIs Experience building AI agents, agentic workflows, or LLM‑powered automation systems using tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants/Responses API, or similar frameworks Experience building production APIs and services using modern Python frameworks Experience with PostgreSQL and databases Comfort working with building and operating on large datasets; GIS experience is helpful but not required Experience deploying and operating production services in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Render, Vercel, or similar platforms Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, observability, and the operational practices needed to keep production systems reliable Embodies a startup mentality, demonstrates ownership, and effectively balances high‑quality output with a keen sense of urgency Nice to have Experience with spatial indexing or mapping frameworks Exposure to infrastructure, energy, environmental permitting, utilities, or regulatory workflows Prior experience at high‑growth startups or on founding engineering teams or fast‑moving 0‑to‑1 product environments Compensation $150,000 to $180,000 base salary, plus equity. Our compensation packages include competitive base salary, meaningful equity in the form of stock options, and benefits. Compensation varies based on experience, skill level, and role scope. Relocation assistance is available. We believe equity is critical to long‑term financial upside. As a founding engineer, you will have the option to trade some salary for above‑market equity if desired. Location This role is in‑person, based out of our Jersey City office. We may relocate to New York City depending on team needs in the future. #J-18808-Ljbffr Flotive AI