Founding Backend Engineer
25 Minutes ago • 3-8 Years • $175,000 PA - $300,000 PA
Backend Development
Job Description
Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms, aiming to deliver associate-level AGI. The company has raised nearly $10M and has strong initial traction with large enterprise contracts. This role offers high impact, shaping product and culture, high equity (0.5%+ and $175K-$300K cash), and the opportunity to work with a high-talent founding team. You will push the frontier of GenAI applications, design knowledge graph algorithms, and collaborate with top AI labs and financial firms.
Good To Have:
- Experience with LLMs, search and retrieval
- Previous work at a financial firm
Must Have:
- Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human-level capabilities
- Design and build novel knowledge graphs 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
- Track record of extraordinary ability
- 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience
- Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF
Perks:
- High equity: 0.5%+ equity
- $175K - 300K cash compensation
- Be a part of a great founding team in SF
- Shape the product and culture from day one
- Dive into unsolved challenges at the Gen AI application frontier
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 graphs 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
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