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Founding Platform Eng Lead

Risely AI · San Francisco, United States · On-site

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About Risely AI

The University OS: every student, course, dollar, and donor on one record, Risely's agents drafting in every office, and staff approving every move. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We're hiring our Founding Platform Lead. This is a player-coach role at the foundation of the company. You'll own and build the core platform that delivers end-to-end deployments to large universities at record speeds with excellent quality. 3-8 years of production engineering. You've built and operated systems at the level of the things we're hiring you to lead:

What they're looking for

  • Systems thinker. You design at the level of the whole platform. You see dependencies before you change anything
  • Abstraction taste. You know which patterns deserve to become primitives. You know when to invest in the platform layer and when to leave a customer feature as bespoke code
  • Investment judgment. You know when to stop adding surface area and reinforce the platform underneath. You've made that call and you've been right
  • Master of many threads. You run several concurrent workstreams without dropping the ball on any of them and you’re able to keep the team posted on all threads at any time
  • Backend. Python and TypeScript in production. Postgres, schema design at scale, query performance under real load
  • Infrastructure. AWS or GCP, Kubernetes or equivalent, CDK preferred. You understand how to make the calls on cost, latency, blast radius, and failure modes
More about this role

Comp: $150-215K total cash (incl. variable) plus founding-level equity

Risely is building the agentic operating system for universities. We're live at some of the largest universities in the country and growing fast.

We're hiring our Founding Platform Lead. This is a player-coach role at the foundation of the company. You'll own and build the core platform that delivers end-to-end deployments to large universities at record speeds with excellent quality.

  • The platform that delivers in 4 weeks. Most companies in our space take 12 months to deliver an implementation. The platform you own compresses three things in parallel: the data layer against the customer's source systems, the agent configuration against their workflows, and the security and sync infrastructure each customer inherits. Today, a complex deployment can take us 10-12 weeks to get done, down from 12 months. Your job is to take it lower, and keep it there as the customer base grows from 10 to 40 to 400.
  • The deployment automation. A pipeline of agents that does the work an engineering team would otherwise do manually for every customer. You own how they're designed, how they're evaluated, where humans stay in the...

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