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Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $210,000.00/yr

About Us Metal is building the worlds most powerful intelligence platform for private market investors. We support deal teams throughout the diligence lifecycle from market research and sourcing to evaluation and close. Top-tier funds like Berkshire Partners already rely on Metal to move faster and make smarter investment decisions. Were growing quickly expanding our platform and customer base and were just getting started. If you're excited to transform how private investors work, collaborate, and make decisions, wed love to meet you. The Role Were looking for a Software Engineer to help us build magical, AI-native products that blend speed, intelligence, and simplicity. Youll work across the stack from building fast, intuitive interfaces to designing scalable backend infrastructure and play a key role in defining how our system thinks and feels. This is a high-impact role collaborating closely with Metals founders, GTM team, and fellow engineers. Youll ship production code across frontend and backend surfaces, contribute to intelligent agent development, and help shape the core architecture of our platform. What You'll Do

• Own core parts of the product across both backend and frontend systems
• Design and build scalable backend services with Go, MongoDB, and Vespa
• Implement clean, maintainable UI components using React (Next.js) and Tailwind CSS
• Collaborate with design and product to rapidly prototype new AI-native workflows
• Build and integrate LLM-powered agents into investor workflows
• Work across the stack (FE, API, infra) to deliver seamless, intelligent experiences
• Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering culture as an early team member
• Drive performance, reliability, and usability across the platform

What Were Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production systems
• Strong backend development experience (ideally in Go and MongoDB)
• Comfortable working in frontend frameworks like React and Next.js
• Familiarity with building and scaling cloud-native applications on AWS
• Excited by fast iteration, rapid prototyping, and customer-centric development
• Curious about intelligent systems and how to orchestrate agents using LLMs
• Entrepreneurial mindset proactive, adaptable, and outcome-oriented
• Based in NYC or open to relocating we believe great product gets built in person

Bonus

• Experience working with or around AI/GenAI products
• Familiarity with vector databases (e.g. Vespa, Pinecone) or agent orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, OpenAI functions)
• Exposure to real-time search, ranking, or large-scale data pipelines
• Prior experience in a startup or lean, fast-moving engineering team

Our Stack

• Frontend: React (Next.js), Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Go, MongoDB
• AI Infra: Vespa.ai, Model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), Agent orchestration
• Infra: Vercel, AWS, GitHub Actions

Benefits & Compensation We believe in hiring great people and rewarding them with competitive compensation. For this role, you can expect:

• Salary: $150,000 $210,000 USD, depending on experience
• Equity: Meaningful early-stage ownership in Metal
• Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Compensation Range: $150K - $210K Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Technology, Information and Internet

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