Software Engineer
Quick facts
- Pay
- $200K-$320K base salary
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, New York
- Skills
- Python, TypeScript, React, Docker, AWS
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
An early-stage startup building the operating system for psychotherapy practices is hiring a Founding Engineer.
Their software helps therapists and practice owners understand how their business is performing, see what needs attention, and spend far less time on admin. They have raised over $5M, the team is six people in New York, and they are hiring our third engineer to own a major product vertical: practice analytics and insights.
This is a founding engineer seat. You will work with the co-founders every day, own product areas outright, and shape both the product and the engineering culture from the ground up.
What You Will Do
- Own entire product verticals end to end: roadmap, architecture, execution and production operations
- Build AI-powered analytics and tooling that lets one practice operator support 40+ practices instead of 1-2
- Run parallel Claude Code and Codex agent sessions to ship at dramatically higher velocity
- Architect and deploy full-stack features in Python and React on AWS, with no dedicated DevOps support
- Make product decisions autonomously: spot the opportunity, form an opinion, ship it without waiting for a spec
- Build the EHR integrations and data layer that practice analytics runs on
What We Are Looking For
- 5-10+ years of full-stack engineering with real product ownership
- You have built and shipped a product end to end, zero to one, not just features inside a larger team
- Full-stack fluency across frontend and backend, built from scratch rather than maintained
- A sophisticated agentic AI workflow: Claude Code or Codex deeply integrated with parallel sessions and custom tooling, not casual copilot use
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, AWS preferred, plus Docker
- High agency and an ownership mindset, and comfort with early-stage intensity
- Based in New York City or willing to relocate promptly. This role is five days a week in office
Nice to have
- Experience at a high-growth startup or a top-tier tech company
- You have built product-facing analytics features
Stack
Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, EC2), Docker, Playwright, GitHub Actions, Claude Code, Codex.
Compensation
- $200K-$320K base salary depending on experience
- Meaningful equity, roughly 0.5%-1%
- Relocation support for candidates moving to New York
- Open to visa transfers such as OPT and H1B on a case-by-case basis
Interview process
- A 45-minute behavioral conversation with a co-founder, including a lightly technical discussion of system design
- A 2-4 hour system design and product building exercise: review a partially fleshed-out spec and codebase, identify the wrong decisions baked into it, talk through your approach, then build the solution. AI tools are allowed and encouraged
- Offer
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Jack in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst (or Engineer, for engineering-degree holders)” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Software Developers · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $109,845 | ~15% |
| Level II | $137,717 | ~31% |
| Level III | $165,589 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $193,461 | ~61% |
This job pays $200,000–$320,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.