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title: 'Founding Software Engineer at joinanvil.com'
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# Founding Software Engineer at joinanvil.com

- **Company:** joinanvil.com
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-06-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/joinanvil-com/am9icG9zdDqZogiLAYI3D_qr7RRehfIv

## Job description

## About Anvil

Anvil is the SEO platform for the LLM era. As search shifts from Google to tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, we help brands stay visible and drive leads in AI-native search. We’re a seed-stage startup based in NYC, backed by top investors and building fast at the frontier of AI and search.

## The Role

We’re hiring a Backend-Focused Software Engineer to join our founding product team. You’ll work directly with the founders (ex-Google, YC) and build infrastructure powering AI visibility, LLM analytics, and distributed systems. As an early engineer, you’ll have significant influence — on architecture, company culture, and how we tell our story. There is a lot to build in a short amount of time, expect intense schedule.

## What We're Looking For

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (top CS programs preferred)
- 1–2 years of experience at a Big Tech company or Series B+ startup
- Strong CS fundamentals, with hands-on experience in multithreaded backend systems
- Experience with Java and TypeScript
- Must have: experience with data pipelines — Airflow, Kafka, Redis queues, MySQL (or similar)
- High standards for code quality and reliability
- Bias toward shipping and iterating quickly in a startup environment

## Nice to Have

- Familiarity with Spring Boot
- Interest in AI, LLMs, or search infrastructure

## What You’ll Get

- $130,000–$150,000 base salary + equity
- health/dental/vision insurance
- International company offsite
- 3 weeks remote per year
- Mentorship from ex-Google founders
- Major say in shaping the engineering culture, narrative, and product direction

Logistics

- Hybrid, 3 days a week on-site

## About joinanvil.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Anvil is an SEO platform for the LLM era that helps brands monitor, analyze, and optimize their visibility inside AI-native search tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage, Y Combinator-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY (primary) with a registered address in Philadelphia, PA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely 2024–2025 based on YC launch timing)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed; founding team includes ex-Google engineers (named founders not listed in available sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Search Optimization / SEO for Large Language Models (LLMs)
- **Target customers**: B2B – marketing teams, CMOs, brand managers, enterprise SEO departments
- **Mission or purpose**: To ensure brands “show up and stand out” in AI-generated answers, making them discoverable in the new search paradigm.

## Products & Services
- **[Anvil Platform]**: SaaS platform that tracks brand mentions across thousands of user queries in LLMs, benchmarks against competitors, provides content gap analysis, and offers optimization recommendations. Think “Ahrefs + Google Search Console for LLMs.”

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (seed-stage; funding details not public)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not publicly disclosed; described as “backed by top investors” (Y Combinator, and likely angel investors)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (YC S? batch) and “top investors” (undisclosed)
- **Growth Signals**: Active design partner onboarding before Demo Day; hiring founding software engineer; early-stage but high traction in the emerging LLM SEO category

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover focus on LLM SEO**: Unlike traditional SEO tools (e.g., Moz, BrightEdge), Anvil is purpose-built for AI-native search, addressing a rapidly growing need as more users turn to ChatGPT/Perplexity for discovery.
- **Founding team expertise**: Built by a team with deep knowledge of LLMs, SEO, and growth (ex-Google, YC).
- **Actionable insights**: Provides specific content and metadata recommendations to improve LLM ranking, not just reporting.

## Strategic Focus
- **Design partner onboarding**: Currently building with a handful of design partners (CMOs) before YC Demo Day.
- **Product development**: Scaling infrastructure for large-scale LLM query monitoring, analytics, and distributed systems.
- **Hiring for scale**: Bringing on founding engineers to shape architecture and company culture early.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & trajectory**: Seed-stage startup with high ownership – early hires have major influence on engineering culture, product direction, and narrative.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid (New York, NY); allows 3 weeks remote per year.
- **Benefits**: Health/dental/vision insurance, international company offsite, mentorship from ex-Google founders.
- **Engineering environment**: Focus on Java, TypeScript, Spring Boot, data pipelines (Airflow, Kafka, Redis). High expectations for shipping fast and iterating.
- **Ideal for**: Engineers who want backend-heavy work, are comfortable with 1–2 years of Big Tech/Series B+ experience, and want to be at the frontier of AI and search.

## Sources
1. [Y Combinator Launch – Anvil](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NVb-anvil-be-the-answer-in-ai-search)
2. [Tealhq job posting for Founding Software Engineer](https://www.tealhq.com/job/software-engineer_7ea1abdec970fc5459acf017c97a5fba946ec)
3. [joinanvil.com Terms of Service](https://joinanvil.com/terms-of-service)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile – Joinanvil](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/joinanvil/__FQ-6xNqbcOYv7xC9C_gcWxEFj846-KYL0vHBRaGdjF4)

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