Senior Software Engineer
Quick facts
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York, New York
- Experience
- 6–15 years
- Skills
- TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS
- Industry
- Information Technology — 687 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Immediate requirement for Founding Principal Engineer opportunity. If you’re open to exploring new opportunities, please reply at your earliest convenience, and I’d be happy to share more details and discuss the role further.
Role Details:
Position: Founding Principal Engineer
- 6 - 15 years of experience in full-stack engineering
- Visa sponsorship details: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
- Hiring Count: Looking to hire 1 - 2 candidates for this role
- Hybrid work policy: 3 days in-office in Union Square, NYC
- Full-time position
- Location: New York, NY
- Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS
About This Role
We are looking for a Founding Principal Engineer with 6+ years of experience, who will be working directly alongside the CEO to set the technical foundation for a pediatric mental health platform that's rebuilding care from the ground up. You'll be a product-minded, hands-on builder who thrives in early-stage environments and takes ownership of complex consumer products in a regulated space. We just raised our Series B and are replacing our offshore team with a small, exceptional in-house engineering org, and you'll be the one to define how it's built.
What will you be doing?
- Writing production code on the hardest problems while owning architecture across telehealth, EHR, patient dashboard, and AI adoption
- Working directly with the CEO to translate clinical, growth, and operations needs into technical plans: making independent product decisions without detailed PRDs
- Leading and transitioning the offshore engineering team while establishing engineering standards, code review, and quality practices
- Driving AI adoption across the organization to accelerate the product roadmap
- Laying the groundwork for a small, high-caliber onshore engineering team over the next 6–12 months
Dealbreaker/ Must have:
- Recent early-stage/startup experience as senior or founding engineer (Bigtech background is ok as long as supplemented with recent startup experience)
- Hard skills: Production full-stack TypeScript (Node + React + AWS)
- Soft skills: Product-minded: makes UX/feature decisions without detailed PRDs
- Seniority: 6 - 15 years of experience in full-stack engineering
- Work experience: Staff/Principal-level IC owning systems end-to-end
- Hard skills: Built software in regulated environments (fintech, healthcare, HIPAA)
- Active GitHub or personal project portfolio demonstrating engineering skill
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Rajib | Employvision, Inc.
Phone: (732) 384-1467 | E-mail: rajib@employvission.com
Visa sponsorship record: Employvision, Inc.
Sponsors occasionally| Fiscal year | H-1B LCAs | USCIS approvals | USCIS denials | PERM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 2 | — | — | — |
| FY2025 | — | 2 | 0 | — |
| FY2024 | 2 | — | — | — |
This exact kind of role (Software Developers) isn't among the roles Employvision, Inc. sponsored most often.
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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
Software Developers · New York (state median of areas). Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $84,937 | ~15% |
| Level II | $107,244 | ~31% |
| Level III | $128,658 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $149,208 | ~61% |
The listing has no salary, so we can't place it on a wage level. Ask the employer which wage level they'd file at: Level III–IV registrations get 3–4 entries in the H-1B lottery.
* 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.