# Founding Engineer - Company: [Ropes]() - Location: New York City - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: May 27, 2026 ## Job description **TL;DR:** We're looking for founding engineers to help us build human-focused security tech, reinvent skill-based interviewing, and transform how the the $4T+ contingent workforce industry operates **About Ropes** Ropes is building a new way for companies to hire talent, starting with anti-fraud technology and better skill-based interviews. We help staffing and recruiting firms fight fraud, identify top talent, and confidently market that talent to Fortune 500 companies and the top employers in the world. **Company highlights:** * **Talent-dense, capable team:** We're a team of 10 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics * **Well-capitalized:** $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, etc. * **Traction:** We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with dozens of enterprise staffing customers - including the largest staffing firm in the world * **Market opportunity:** Our customers are the premier firms of the $600B+ staffing industry. We're working to reinvent how that market operates from the ground up **What You'll Do:** * Define the new standard of technical interviewing that retires LeetCode and transforms how companies evaluate talent * Use AI to detect fraud, identify patterns in candidate performance, and accelerate the hiring process **Who You Are:** * You want to solve problems end-to-end and own what you build * You're proficient in modern full-stack development (React, Node.js, Python, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) * You're highly technical with strong coding fundamentals and a bias toward quality * You're comfortable in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment **Why Ropes:** * **Early impact:** Join at the exact inflection point—past product-market fit, before scaling takes over * **Ownership:** As one of the first engineering hires, you'll shape technical decisions and own critical systems This is an **on-site role in New York City** - designed for builders who want to change how the world hires talent. ## Apply [Apply on Ropes]() Canonical job page: