Emerge Career · 2 months ago
Founding Design Engineer
New York, NY, US
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$120K/yr - $200K/yr
1+ years expEmerge Career is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and incarceration through an integrated tech-powered workforce development platform. They are seeking a Founding Design Engineer who will be the first engineer on the team, responsible for high-impact technical work, user engagement, and developing scalable systems to support students' success.
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Responsibilities
Coaching students. You’ll support students throughout their training journey—not just by building tools, but by directly engaging with them. This means texting, calling, and helping students one-on-one when needed. At the same time, you’ll take what you learn from those interactions and turn it into scalable systems and smart automations. You’ll be doing both engineering and non-engineering work to make sure students succeed and the product keeps improving
Talking to students. Good founding engineers read feedback and iterate quickly. Great founding engineers have users they're friendly with, talk with them frequently, bounce ideas off them, and iterate with them when they ship new things
Doing support. This is an engineering role with key program management responsibilities. You’ll work directly with students every day. That requires patience, empathy, and a willingness to meet people where they are. You’ll help investigate and resolve product issues, and you’ll take ownership of making the product better through what you learn
Documenting your work and its impact. Our work is complex, spans months, and involves multiple teams. Clear documentation and communication are critical. You’ll be responsible for creating awareness when a change impacts operations, and for helping others understand how features affect different parts of training and service delivery. Precision matters
Owning products and features end to end. You won’t just take tickets. You’ll originate ideas based on user conversations, your own instincts, and our larger strategy. You’ll test MVPs in production, iterate based on real feedback, and stay accountable to the long-term success of your work. We build in React and TypeScript. If you like shipping for the sake of it, this role isn’t for you. If you like shipping with purpose and ownership, you’ll love it here
Implementing AI features and operational workflows. This is last for a reason. We don’t jump to automation. We do things manually first to fully understand the problem—then we build. If you care about applying AI meaningfully, not just for hype, this is the right place
Qualification
Required
Willing to relocate and work in-person in New York City
Experience taking a project from 0 to 1. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, built an impressive side project, or been one of the first 10 employees at an early stage startup
You love working with React and Typescript
Experience with Figma
Experience collaborating with operations or support teams
Preferred
Experience in ed-tech
Experience with UX research
Company
Emerge Career
Emerge Career platform offers vocational training for people released from prison to get immediate jobs.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$3.2MKey Investors
Seven Seven Six
2022-11-04Seed· $3.2M
Leadership Team
Uzoma Orchingwa
Co-Founder
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