Founding Engineer - Senior / Staff

About Noto

Noto is building the AI native operating system for after school businesses like tutoring centers, music schools, and sports academies. Our mission is to power the 150K after-school businesses across the U.S. with a unified platform that replaces spreadsheets and outdated tools.

We recently raised a $3.8 M seed from Base10 Partners and South Park Commons.

Founded by two technical founders - AJ Ding (CEO) and Steve Wang (CTO) - we're based in NYC and assembling a small, exceptional team of builders who care deeply about craft, users, and impact.

Join us to build software that empowers small-business owners in local communities!

(us at karaoke with one of our favorite customers)

Team Background

AJ Ding (CEO) - Second-time founder and previously built an AI recruiting company. He was a machine learning engineer and data scientist at Quora, Lyft, & Meta. He studied Statistics at Yale and most importantly, he comes from a family of small business owners.

Steve Wang (CTO) - Former Head of Engineering at Nitra (a16z backed vertical SaaS). He's worked in data science and engineering at Lyft. He studied math at Harvard, and his family is from Canada.

Location

• 4 days in-office (Union Square area)
• 1 day remote per week
• 1 week per quarter work from anywhere
• Occasional travel for team off sites and customer visits

Work Culture

The Role

We're hiring a Senior or Staff Level Founding Engineer who will partner directly with our CTO (Steve) to help lead product, engineering, and design.

This is not a typical developer role.

You will :

Ideal Candidate

Engineering Culture

We value product-minded engineers who think like founders. You'll own features end-to-end and help shape the roadmap.

We tolerate messiness to ship quickly, but take responsibility for cleaning up our tech debt .

As the founding engineering, you will help shape a strong engineering culture that keeps us efficient and motivated :

Compensation & Perks

Interview Process

Why Work With Us ♥

"Y'all are incredible and have made such a difference in my life in ways both professional and personal. I'm grateful and indebted." - Noto Customer

Sound Interesting?

Let's talk. If you're excited to build from ( almost ) zero to one, own meaningful parts of the stack, and help scale a product loved by educators and creators, we'd love to meet you! ✉