New Harbor · 1 month ago
Sr. Founding Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$120K/yr - $150K/yrNew Harbor is a cybersecurity company focused on providing foundational security to organizations through their software platform. The role of Sr. Founding Engineer involves rapidly building and shipping products while guiding the technical decision-making of the team, ensuring the product scales effectively across various applications.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Build and ship products to users and then iterate based on their feedback
Write and ship code daily across our core platform and browser extensions
Define technical approaches for the team that balance short and long-term goals
Lead major product initiatives from concept to delivery, taking full ownership of significant product areas
Solve complex technical challenges with team members that enable the product to scale across inconsistent interfaces of third-party apps
Make foundational architectural decisions that will define how the product works
Take on outsized ownership and grow with the company as it scales
Drive technical strategy balancing scale, security, and rapid iteration
Establish engineering practices appropriate for our stage and scale
Work with product design to ensure powerful yet intuitive user experiences
Collaborate closely with founders on roadmap, culture, and long-term engineering practices
Qualification
Required
Significant experience as a founding or early full-stack engineer (first 5 team members) at a 0-to-1 stage startup where you led significant portions of product development
Self-starter with product mindset who loves writing code to build new things - you can take loose direction and deliver a working feature that is rooted in an understanding of our goals and the user's needs
Bias toward action - you get MVPs in users' hands quickly and refine based on feedback
Proven track record of shipping products in high-uncertainty, resource-constrained environments
Strong architectural and system design skills with experience making foundational technical decisions
Excited to use the right tech for the job whether that's AI or a well-placed script
Pragmatic judgment - you know when to build for scale and when to hardcode
Strong understanding of security fundamentals and threat modeling (you don't need to be a security expert, but you think about security by default)
Deep experience building with modern web frameworks and infrastructure. For context, our stack includes Nuxt, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Supabase, and a heavy browser-based component
Thrive in ambiguity, comfortable wearing multiple hats and making decisions with incomplete information
Benefits
Impact from day one: Your work directly shapes the product organizations depend on for security
Ownership: Significant influence on both technical and product direction
Equity and upside: As one of our earliest hires, you’ll share meaningfully in the value you help create
Breadth of experience: From technical challenges to product strategy, you’ll wear many hats
Mission-driven work: Protect nonprofits and small businesses alongside large multinational organizations
Company
New Harbor
New Harbor is your all-in-one security and compliance partner.
Founded in 2022
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase