Who We Are
Scend is on a mission to modernize M&A and bring efficiency to private markets. With a strong team, early customers, and backing from top investors like Pear VC, we’re positioned for rapid growth.
You’ll join a lean, high-impact team who share a passion for building beautiful, functional products. Our team brings deep expertise across tech and finance: with backgrounds spanning M&A, private equity, consumer fintech, and the Python open-source community.
Deliver: Everyone ships code, designs features, or works directly with customers to turn ideas into products.
Empower: We are more than our job titles. If you see a problem or an opportunity, you’re empowered to take action.
Align: We solve problems together, openly and with humility.
Learn: We’re always exploring new ideas, tools, and ways of working.
The Role
You’ll work directly with our founders to shape the product and architecture from the ground up. As an early team member, you’ll have an outsized impact on everything from system design to our engineering culture. While prior experience is not required, a background or interest in LLMs and Machine Learning is a big plus.
Design & Build: Architect scalable, high-performance APIs to serve financial data and turn them into product features
AI-Powered Systems: Generate datasets and research reports using LLMs; applying evals and fine-tuning to drive accuracy
Data Processing: Process large datasets using Airflow, Pandas, and Spark
Web Crawling: Develop high-scale systems for crawling sites and docs from the web
Infrastructure: Manage infrastructure with Terraform, Docker, AWS ECS, and monitoring tools like Sentry and CloudWatch
2+ years building scalable software systems
Expertise in Python and SQL
Plus: Comfortable with data processing frameworks (Airflow, Pandas, Spark)
Plus: Familiarity with infra automation tools (Terraform, Docker)
Plus: Background in LLM systems and Machine Learning
*If you’d like to add a perk, let us know! As a founding team member, you’ll play a key role in shaping our culture.
Competitive Compensation & Equity: You’ll have a meaningful stake in our success.
Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Flexible Environment: We’re based in NYC and value in-person collaboration, but we’re open to remote arrangements for exceptional talent
Early Team Influence: Your input will shape our product, culture, and future.
Growth & Culture: We invest in your growth (courses, books, conferences) and regularly host team events, offsites, and socials to build our team culture.
Unlimited PTO
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Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey as a Founding Engineer at Scend in New York City? At Scend, we're all about revolutionizing M&A and enhancing efficiencies in private markets. If you’re a tech enthusiast who thrives in a fast-paced environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you! As a crucial member of our founding team, you'll collaborate closely with our founders to shape groundbreaking products from the ground up. You’ll be involved in designing and building scalable APIs that transform financial data into exciting product features. We value an empowering culture where every team member contributes to problem-solving, learning, and innovating. Although experience with machine learning and LLMs is a plus, what really matters is your passion for technology and your desire to make an impact. If you have a solid background in Python and SQL, as well as familiarity with data processing tools and infrastructure automation, we'd love to hear from you. At Scend, your work will significantly influence our engineering culture, product vision, and future as we aim for rapid growth! Join us in crafting beautiful, functional solutions that change the landscape of private markets for good.
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