Location: New York City

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site in NYC office (regular travel, 30-50%, for client engagements)

About the Role

Our client, an AI startup founded by engineers from institutions like Palantir and Citadel, is building the first AI-augmented deep research platform for the financial services industry. They recently raised $7.25 million from backers including founders of OpenAI and DBT.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will be the technical architect for their most strategic client relationships at top financial firms. This role embodies the principle of "Forward-Deployed with Product DNA," meaning you embed directly with clients to own their outcomes while simultaneously architecting platform features that serve the entire market. Success is measured by your ability to iterate, deploy, and co-develop competitive advantages in high-stakes research environments.

Key Responsibilities

Director of Engineering

Location: New York, NY

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (NYC only)

About the Role

Our client, a global venture builder that empowers founders to launch and scale transformative healthcare companies, is seeking an ambitious, product-minded Director of Engineering. The client is deeply dedicated to launching AI-native healthcare ventures.

In this senior technical leadership role, you will be responsible for originating, leading, and delivering on critical 0-to-1 agentic development projects across the company. You'll act as a technologist-investor, redefining how AI startups are built in healthcare by leveraging the client's dense repository of healthtech venture knowledge.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will shape and scale our backend platform, driving technical excellence while remaining hands-on. You’ll lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-native systems that are secure, scalable, and reliable.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement backend architecture and technical strategy.
• Own feature delivery end-to-end, ensuring performance and scalability.
• Champion engineering best practices (TDD, CI/CD, clean architecture).
• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers to raise technical standards.
• Improve workflows, monitoring, and incident management.
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to align technical and business goals.

Requirements

Requirements

• 7+ years backend engineering, 5+ with Node.js & TypeScript in production.
• Deep expertise in AWS services (Lambda, Cognito, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS).
• Proven track record with serverless, microservices, event-driven systems.
• Strong background in API design, distributed systems, debugging.
• Leadership experience in architecture decisions and team mentorship.

About Octopus by RTG

Octopus by RTG is the tech hiring and outsourcing arm of Robusta Technology Group, dedicated to connecting exceptional tech talent with top-tier organizations across the MENA, GCC, Europe, the US, and Canada. We specialize in building strong, long-term partnerships between skilled professionals and innovative companies. Our mission is to empower growth, innovation, and excellence by matching the right talent with the right opportunities.

Currently, we are hiring an Enterprise Data Architect for one of our partner organizations in KSA on a 1-year contract, offering the opportunity to contribute to exciting projects within a dynamic and forward-thinking environment.

Main Responsibilities

Enterprise Data Architecture & Design

Senior Software Engineer, Admin Platform (Backend Focus)

Location: Seattle, WA

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (4 days a week in-office: Monday–Thursday)

About the Role

Our client is a well-established company transforming modern workplaces for hybrid work, with their software platform redefining how companies manage visitors, desks, and deliveries in over 20,000 locations globally. Backed by top-tier VCs, their newest division, Workplace, is their fastest-growing revenue stream.

They are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join the Admin Platform (AMP) team. This team builds enterprise-grade features (like SCIM sync, Custom Roles, and SSO) specifically targeting their largest customers (1000+ employees). This role offers the chance to make a tremendous impact by boosting revenue and solving key architectural challenges related to enterprise scale and performance.

What You'll Do

Location: New York, NY or London, UK

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (2-3 days in-office) or Remote (within +/- 3 hours of NYC/London)

About the Role

Our client, a company reinventing the B2B Accounts Receivable category, is in hypergrowth mode with $19 million in funding from investors like a16z and Salesforce. Their modern, AI-powered platform helps finance and revops teams scale their billing and quote-to-cash process for complex contracts.

They are seeking a Mid/Senior Product Engineer with strong backend skills to build world-class financial tools. You will have a hand in shaping the backend architecture, guiding product direction through cross-functional collaboration, and playing an integral role in building their early engineering culture.

What You'll Do

• Build robust and scalable financial tools for fast-scaling technology companies.
• Play a key role in shaping the overall backend architecture and technical roadmap.
• Collaborate deeply with data, product, and design teams to create a world-class product experience and guide feature direction.
• Drive engineering quality and contribute to a high-performance, autonomous culture.

Requirements

Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site) or Bangalore, India

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Our client is an innovative AI startup with $6.88 million in funding, dedicated to helping people land their dream jobs with tools like AI Interview Copilot and Mock Interviews. They are seeking a Founding Fullstack Engineer to build their next generation of consumer and business-facing products. This is a high-autonomy role for a strong builder who is comfortable writing scalable business logic on the backend and driving elegant frontend solutions, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI, LLMs, and agent systems.

This role demands a high degree of independent technical decision-making and ownership across the entire product lifecycle.

What You'll Do

Location: New York, NY (Flatiron District)

Employment Type: Full-time

On-site: 5 days/week in-person (Non-negotiable)

About the Role

Our client is a high-growth, venture-backed defense tech company working at the cutting edge of signal processing, machine learning, and embedded systems. As a Machine Learning Infra Engineer, you will design and build core infrastructure from scratch to handle petabytes of radio spectrum data. This is a high-ownership role for an experienced engineer who has strong opinions on tooling best practices and can make informed, future-proof decisions about architecture.

This team operates with a high bar for talent, a culture of high growth and high ownership, and requires an in-person presence to foster collaboration.

What You'll Do

Founding ML/Data Science Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Our client is building the revenue execution system for B2B enterprises, tackling the underpenetrated space of post-sales enablement. They are combining LLMs with structured customer data to automate account scoring, cohort segmentation, and expansion playbooks. As a Founding ML/Data Science Engineer, you'll work directly with the founders to architect, build, and scale this platform from 0 to 1, with full ownership of core features.

This role requires a hybrid engineer who can both architect production ML systems and make sophisticated modeling decisions. You'll need to be equally comfortable with classical ML and cutting-edge language models.

Core Responsibilities

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

On-site: 5 days/week in-office

About the Role

Our client, an AI company focused on dramatically accelerating semiconductor design, is seeking a world-class ML leader to architect and own their entire AI roadmap. They are solving the critical problem of exponentially increasing chip design costs by providing an integrated AI agent and code editor workflow to make silicon engineers 4x more productive. This is a foundational role where you will define the technical trajectory across the platform, including code generation, reinforcement learning, and layout optimization.

This position requires a deep, hands-on expert who can lead a growing ML team while actively contributing to the technical work.

Responsibilities