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title: 'Founding Engineer at trytrata.com'
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# Founding Engineer at trytrata.com

- **Company:** trytrata.com
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/trata/am9icG9zdDryHv0IgglXqb0UVIpos2T9

## Job description

Trata hosts unique buyside conversations pertaining public markets between analysts and portfolio managers who manage billions in AUM. We’re working to kill Bloomberg chat and win this market.

We’re backed by a VC with a higher unicorn rate than YC and Sequoia, Walter Kortschak (prev. CIO of SignalFire and Managing Partner at Summit Partners), Y Combinator, later-stage founders backed by some of the best VCs (Sequoia, Founders Fund, a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, YC), Pioneer Fund and 10+ hedge funds.

We recently published a benchmark called Hedge-Bench that’s seeing a good amount of buzz (see the paper here: https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03918v1).

## The Role

We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to join us in person in Hudson Yards, NYC. You will ship production features from day 1 and materially shape the platform.

Our engineering team comes from xAI, IMC Trading, Instagram, Meta, and Brex. You will work directly across GTM and Engineering in our lean team. Being good at your work and being enjoyable to work with are rewarded at Trata.

## What you’ll do

- Architect and own core systems: user journeys, AI native features such as search and STT / TTS models, subscription & payments, and platform infrastructure.
- Take features end-to-end: from database design and APIs to UI and metrics
- Deeply understand our users (buy-side analysts and PMs) and the business to define what to build and how to build it.
- Design and scale our APIs and MCPs that power research workflows.

## Who you are

- 1-4 years of full stack experience with a proven track record of shipping complete products to real users.
- High ownership: You see problems through from discovery to measurable impact.
- High agency: You find a way forward through obstacles and ambiguity rather than waiting for direction.
- You move fast and iterate: Ship quickly, learn from feedback, and improve relentlessly.
- AI-forward: You leverage AI tools for speed while maintaining technical rigor.
- Based in NYC or willing to relocate—we work 55-65 hours a week

Tech Stack Talent and track record matter more than specific stack experience. That said, our current stack includes:

- Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript
- Backend: FastAPI, Python
- Database: Postgres, Redis, Pinecone, Algolia
- Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Vercel
- AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Deepgram, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, MiniMax, Pipecat

## Why Join Us

- Rare Opportunity: Build on valuable, proprietary data with a durable moat and a flexible product that has significant expansion potential beyond buy-side analysts.
- Gain founding experience: a high-upside scaling startup that has yet to scale its team headcount.
- High autonomy in 0 → 1 product direction and architecture to 10x your learning.
- $150–200k base salary + meaningful equity.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance + all meals covered

Interview Steps

- Screen Interview (30 minutes)
- Technical Interview (45 minutes)
- System Design (1 hour)
- Call with CEO
- Offer

Let us know of any timelines and we can complete all steps under a week

## About trytrata.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Trata provides an AI-powered research desk that aggregates anonymous, unbiased investment analysis from hedge fund analysts for hedge funds.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup, Y Combinator W25)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Eric Cho (Co-Founder/CEO), Will (Co-Founder, ML/AI), Alex (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Technology, Information and Internet (AI + Financial Services)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Hedge funds, portfolio managers, and buy-side analysts
- **Mission / Purpose**: To give hedge funds unbiased, unfiltered stock analysis from anonymous analysts at well-known funds, at scale.

## Products & Services
- **[Trata Research Database]**: A subscription-based platform containing transcripts of one-on-one conversations between anonymous hedge fund analysts and PMs, covering 2,000+ tickers. Each conversation is vetted for compliance and MNPI. The AI agents interview analysts, capture their thinking, and publish it anonymously. [trata.com](https://www.trata.com/)
- **[AI Interview Agents]**: Proprietary LLM-based agents that conduct structured interviews with buy-side analysts, extracting their most current debates and tension points for specific stocks. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trata)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.7M (set during M&A offer round, 2025) [getlatka.com](https://getlatka.com/companies/trytrata.com)
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: $500K total funding – Pre-Seed round led by Y Combinator (April 2025) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trata-inc)
- **Revenue**: $550K (2025) [getlatka.com](https://getlatka.com/companies/trytrata.com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead investor), plus 3 other investors [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trata-inc)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 2,000+ tickers covered, 125+ fund contributors, >$175B AUM from active contributors [trata.com](https://www.trata.com/)
  - Content library doubles every month [trata.com](https://www.trata.com/)
  - Headcount grew 20% monthly (LinkedIn data) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trata-inc)
  - Active job postings for Founding Engineer and Business Operations Intern [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trata/jobs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Data Source**: Directly captures candid, anonymous conversation from hedge fund analysts who are experts in their covered stocks – an “expert network where the hedge funds are the experts.”
- **Compliance-First**: Works directly with compliance teams of multi-billion-dollar hedge funds and has a legal team reviewing every transcript for MNPI and fund secrets.
- **Network Effects**: As more analysts contribute, the database grows, creating a stronger incentive for other analysts to join and share insights.
- **AI Scalability**: Uses LLM agents to interview dozens of analysts daily, a process that is far more scalable than traditional human-driven expert networks.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion of Contributor Network**: Actively recruiting analysts from funds of all sizes (not just top-tier), with a focus on growing the breadth and depth of coverage.
- **Product Development**: Building out the AI interview agents and the platform’s ability to surface key “tension points” for equities.
- **Revenue Growth**: Currently at $550K annual revenue, targeting a subscription model with a clear ROI (e.g., $6K subscription vs. potential $900K in fees for a fund).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup with a small, tight-knit team (founders from Cornell, background in hedge funds and ML research). High ownership and impact.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Office locations in New York (HQ) and San Francisco. Some roles list “Remote (US)” as an option (e.g., Business Operations Intern). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trata/jobs)
- **Compensation**: Founding Engineer salary range $125K–$150K (equity likely). Hourly rate for intern $15–$30. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trata/jobs)
- **Engineering Culture**: AI/ML-heavy with a focus on LLMs, agentic systems, and real-time transcription. Strong blend of finance and cutting-edge tech.
- **Notable Perks**: Y Combinator backing, direct access to hedge fund industry, and the opportunity to shape the product from the ground up.

## Sources
1. [Y Combinator Company Page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trata)
2. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/trata-inc)
3. [Trata Official Website](https://www.trata.com/)
4. [Latka Company Profile](https://getlatka.com/companies/trytrata.com)
5. [Y Combinator Jobs Page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trata/jobs)

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