Founding Engineer (Valocore)

About us

Valocore is a New York-based, venture-backed, mission-driven SaaS startup that is disrupting the $645B government contractor industry. Our software will help thousands of contractors better serve the public officials who serve our society. We are a small, ambitious team looking for talented individuals to join the founding team. We are backed by established venture capital investors and supported by an amazing advisory board including industry experts and startup veterans. This is an opportunity to join an early-stage startup and play a critical role in shaping the future of our company and product. 

Job summary

We’re looking to hire a team of founding engineers whose work will sit at and influence the intersection of the public sector and the private sector. If you’re looking for the challenges and rewards of working at an early stage startup, we’d love to hear from you. 

What you’ll do

• Use best practices to build next generation software that will empower our users in a huge and underserved industry 
• Take ownership and become a subject matter expert in everything that you do
• Scope features and refine product requirements
• Make technical decisions that will lay the foundation for the future of the company
• Help define a company culture of high engineering standards 
• Our tech stack - 
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Next.js
• tRPC
• TailwindCSS / Tailwind UI
• AWS

Who you are

• Strong technical skills with preferably 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer implementing best practices and a track record of delivering results
• A builder with a “get things done” attitude who writes clean and robust code and will lay the proper groundwork for all future engineering at the company
• Problem solver with a constant desire to dive deep and understand how things work
• Willingness to learn and take on any new challenge that comes your way

What’s in it for you

• Be a founding engineer - This is an opportunity for greenfield development and to be part of the entire lifecycle of building something completely new from ideation and requirements gathering all the way through to production and supporting our very first users.
• True ownership - As a foundational member of our engineering team, you’ll have both the autonomy and responsibility of making decisions with real impact. It’s incredibly rare for most engineers to get this kind of experience in their careers.
• Built in career growth - As the company grows, so too will your experience and responsibilities. You’ll constantly be taking on new challenges that will push your career to greater and greater heights. 
• Get in on the ground floor - The opportunity is there. We want to grow this company into something BIG. Your work will directly contribute to the success of the company and by getting in early, you stand to reap the benefits of considerably higher upside.

• Benefits -

• Hybrid work environment
• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity stake
• Healthcare, dental, and vision
• Unlimited PTO that you’re highly encouraged to take and all federal holidays
• Salary Range: 140k - 180k

Our Process

We want to move fast so we have a streamlined process 

• Technical screen with the CTO (90 minutes) - 
  • The first half will be spent going into your background and work experience. We want to hear about your past challenges and accomplishments. 
  • The second half will be a technical exercise. No trick questions and no need to prep; we just want to see how you approach problems and build solutions.
• Sync with the CTO and chat with CEO (15 minutes / 30 minutes) - If things go well, we'll schedule a follow up session. You'll also get a chance to chat with the CEO to ask questions and hear more about the opportunity 
• Offer