Deploy to your customer's cloud without relying on your customer to update, monitor, and debug your software. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
As a Founding Software Engineer at Ryvn, you’ll design and build distributed systems that transform how organizations deploy and manage software at scale. You’ll work across the stack — from core platform services and APIs to performance optimization and developer experience — owning problems end-to-end and shipping code that runs in production environments across healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of software development experience , ideally including time at a small, high-growth company
- Full-stack fluency: Comfortable working across web frameworks, APIs, and databases in multiple programming languages
- Strong technical judgment: Able to make pragmatic, well-reasoned tradeoffs to drive projects forward
- Ownership mindset: You take initiative, see problems through, and care deeply about the systems you build
More about this role
Ryvn builds the deployment infrastructure that powers mission-critical software in industries where reliability matters most — from healthcare and finance to manufacturing and beyond. Our platform enables teams to deliver software continuously and securely across complex environments, replacing fragile manual workflows with intelligent, automated orchestration.
We’re rethinking how modern enterprises ship code — ensuring that updates move safely from development to production with speed, precision, and confidence.
Ryvn is a Y Combinator–backed , seed-stage startup based in New York City , where our fully in-person team is building the next generation of deployment infrastructure. We combine the pace of a startup with the discipline of production-grade engineering — solving hard technical problems that have immediate real-world impact.
Our team draws experience from Palantir, Vercel, and Capital One , blending expertise in distributed systems, developer platforms, and enterprise software. We’re backed by top investors who share our belief that the most critical industries deserve infrastructure that’s fast, reliable, and built to last.
As a Founding Software Engineer at Ryvn,...
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