$120k-$200k base, 0.5%-2% equity (US based only)

Overview

String is building the most comprehensive and robust platform for structuring data from the web.

Customers ranging from the largest hedge funds in the world to startups use our platform to pull 20M+ rows of structured web data per week. We bootstrapped to high six figures in ARR, are profitable, and are hiring to meet increasing demand.

We have done all this with a lean, ambitious team, and we just closed a seed round from leading VCs and angels in the data as a service (DaaS) space to further accelerate growth.

We are looking for the right person to join us on this exciting journey! If you love solving tough technical problems, thrive in fast-paced environments, and enjoy working across the stack, we would love to meet you!

Who We’re Looking For

1. You have 2+ years of SWE experience.
2. You’ve shipped meaningful products in small teams or 0→1 environments.
3. You want to work across the stack (backend, ML, infra, AI agents, etc).
4. You thrive in-person and want to build side-by-side with a tight-knit team in NYC or SF.
5. You’re excited by the speed of early-stage startups and always bias towards action.

Why Join Us

Before the AI revolution, building an end to end web scraping platform would have been impossible because every website is structured differently. We have a unique opportunity to build the first platform where a user can structure data across any website with just a prompt. We are at the frontier of AI based web scraping and are tackling a real pain point for our customers.

As a founding engineer, you will work alongside our CTO (Logan) and own large pieces of our core infrastructure for extracting, analyzing, and visualizing data from the web. The software you build will be used by thousands of enterprise customers to structure web data on a daily basis.

In this role, we’ll ask you to:

1. Develop autonomous agents for solving real-world information extraction problems.
2. Ship components of our full-stack, self-serve application.
3. Develop heuristics/LLM/ML based tools for extracting and structuring web data.
4. Maintain and scale our backend architecture/services.
5. Anything else we need! We’re a small team so anything from website updates, writing infrastructure as code etc. will be on the table!

Bonus

1. LLM application experience (RAG, agents, langchain, model evaluation, fine-tuning etc.)
2. RabbitMQ (or similar), grpc, Redis, git, bash, BigQuery, sklearn, pytorch, tensorflow
3. Open information extraction (OpenIE) research experience (or similar)
4. Web scraping experience (mobile reverse engineering, intercepting network traffic, DOM parsing, puppeteer/playwright/selenium etc.)
5. NLP experience, especially NER & relationship extraction

The Team

**Logan (CTO):** Leading engineering and has extensive web scraping & AI experience. Ships like a 10 person engineering team (Rohit writing this, so I’m bragging for him). Previously worked as the founding engineer at Nourish (YC W21) and as a software engineer at C3 AI.

**Rohit (CEO):** Leading GTM and has signed up 15+ enterprises in the last year including 2 of the 5 largest hedge funds while spending >50% of his time coding. Previously worked as a consultant at Bain and cofounded two startups in college, one of them with Logan called CampusOven.

Tufayl (Eng #1): An expert in all things devops, golang, browser automation and antibot. Previously led engineering at TicketGenie, a data platform scraping ticketing websites (notoriously difficult to scrape).

Values

Feel free to read through our team values to see if working with us will be a good fit for you. If you get excited from reading these, it’s likely a good fit and vice versa.

Compensation

We’re building an exceptional team and so want to be generous on compensation. Our philosophy is that base compensation is for living expenses and equity is for upside. We want you to be able to give your all and benefit proportionately from your contributions, without worrying about living expenses.

So our compensation structure is a base salary competitive with other seed stage startups and generous equity relative to other startups. We know that part of the excitement of joining a startup is the upside and to feel like an owner - that’s why we left our corporate jobs.

More concrete information:

• $120k-$200k base, 0.5%-2% equity (US based only)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual international offsite

Interview Process

1. Initial conversation with CTO - 20 minutes
2. Systems design with CTO - 40 minutes
3. Culture fit interview with CEO - 60 minutes
4. Work trial

FAQs

We answer some more questions (team values, product vision, how we think about raising, etc.) in this FAQ document, take a look!