Founding Backend Engineer
$175k - $300kTROVE
About Trove Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms - think enterprise search & agents for private equity, hedge funds, and banks Our mission is to deliver associate‑level AGI We’ve raised nearly $10M from Menlo and Khosla Ventures We have strong initial traction - large enterprise contracts and user engagement on par with best‑in‑class B2B AI applications Why this role? High impact: You’ll shape the product and culture from day one. Expect to dive into unsolved challenges at the Gen AI application frontier – enterprise‑scale data retrieval, autonomous agents, and knowledge graphs. High equity: 0.5%+ equity. $175K - 300K cash. You will own a meaningful piece of the company. High talent density: Be a part of a great founding team in SF. Shivaal Roy (CTO) was a founding engineer at Glean ($100M+ ARR today) and managed the Assistant and Search teams, where he solved similar problems. Danny Goldman (CEO) was a top performer at Bain’s Private Equity group What you’ll do Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human‑level capabilities Design and build novel knowledge graph algorithms to power search and retrieval over unstructured and structured firm data Collaborate with the top AI labs and elite financial firms to design reliable AI‑native systems Who you are Track record of extraordinary ability 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF Nice but not required: experience with LLMs, search and retrieval, previous work at a financial firm #J-18808-Ljbffr TROVE
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