Founding Engineer (Backend) at Pario
New York, NY
$140,000–$180,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding engineering role at a pre-seed startup building an EHR/EMR platform for obstetrics, gynecology, and midwifery practices. The primary focus is backend development in Golang, with ownership over core services powering the MVP web application, while also contributing to frontend, QA, and infrastructure as needed. Suits an experienced, self-directed engineer comfortable making independent technical decisions in an early-stage environment.
Senior level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,550 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,900–3,350
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'founding engineer' with no explicit seniority level in the title; seniority is assessed as Senior based on the 4+ years experience gate, end-to-end ownership of large codebase sections, and autonomous technical decision-making scope.
The hard experience gate is 4+ years in *any* compiled, statically typed language (Golang, Java, Rust, TypeScript, C, C++). Golang is listed first and is the backend language of the stack, so it is captured as the primary skill with the others as alternatives.
TypeScript/React are listed under Requirements as skills the candidate must be willing to work on ('as needed'), making them hard gates on willingness/ability rather than deep expertise; captured as required accordingly.
PostgreSQL and AWS appear only in the 'Tech Stack' narrative section, not in the Requirements block; treated as preferred (stack context).
CI/CD, Docker, and IaC tooling (Terraform/CDK/Pulumi) are explicitly listed under 'Nice to Haves'; treated as preferred.
A Bachelor's degree in CS is listed under 'Nice to Haves' and explicitly allows equivalent experience, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Equity is described as 'significant' but no specific percentage or value is given; it cannot be represented in the compensation fields.
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