About Converge
We're building agents that buy and scale ads for consumer brands like Hims & Hers. They automate all parts of the growth engine: launching, scaling, learning from results, and producing new ads to close the loop.
Today they make over 90% of all budget changes in the ad account, managing $1M+ in daily budgets. They learn from user feedback and proactively look for more work to automate.
We're a team of 13, in-person in New York City, and you'd be our first platform engineer. We scaled to $3M in ARR, serving 200+ customers, and have raised $5.7M from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and the founders of PostHog and Algolia.
What you'll do
We’re looking for a founding engineer to own and build out the platform powering our agents.
We are just 3 product engineers and already operate systems most companies don’t touch until much later:
- Handling $6 billion in annual revenue
- Ingesting 20 TB every month
- 10,000 jobs / s at peak
- Queries join and aggregate 100s of GBs in seconds, fully real-time.
This is not a typical SRE, systems, or backend engineering role. You will:
- Drive your own roadmap
- Go super deep on the hardest infra and systems problems
- Work with product engineers to ship product that scales to the world’s largest consumer brands.
- Automate yourself with AI. Use coding agents for everything you do: hillclimbing benchmarks, profiling queries, monitoring, debugging incidents, writing code, ...
Some examples of what you’ll be working on:
- Build out services that can ingest up to a trillion jobs / month
- Stare at esoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory flamegraphs
- Figure out how to materialize our attribution dataset to scale joining and aggregating billions of rows in realtime
- Build a SQL dialect for our agents to directly query the data in Converge
This role is NOT for you if
- You prefer to architect systems over building them. You will implement everything you design. Expect to be coding, a lot.
- You want to own "big tech" style, multi-quarter migrations. We work with daily and weekly timelines.
- You prefer working remote over in-person. We all love working from our NYC office.
What we’re looking for
- Very strong coding skills. We mostly work with Python, you should be familiar with more performant languages.
- Deep understanding of databases (OLTP & OLAP, we work with Postgres & Clickhouse)
- Experience at scale. You’ve seen first hand where things fall over in data-heavy systems.
- You’re pragmatic and customer-minded. The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what’s not needed.
Compensation
- Salary: $180K - $240K + equity: 0.3% - 0.5%.
- Private medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Pension & 401(k) contributions.
Interviews
- Intro call15 min
We learn about your motivations to join Converge, determine why you'd be a great fit, and answer any questions you have for us.
- Founder chat45 min
We dive into your past experiences to learn what motivates you and what you're like to work with.
- Technical1h
We work through a typical infrastructure problem we face at Converge.
- Superday1 day
Join us for a day to actually build something! You get to meet the team, we get to meet you, it's great. (fully paid)
Note: This can all be done in 2 days. If you want to move quickly, we do too. Our founding engineer was on a plane to meet us just days after our first call.