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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Qualitate'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Qualitate

- **Company:** Qualitate
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/qualitate/9d190246-f4f2-4df2-8ef0-6f881d7e6f13

## Job description

## ABOUT QUALITATE

Qualitate is building the AI-native primary intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis – replacing weeks of manual research with hours of high-signal output.

Expert research is a broken industry dominated by legacy incumbents with expensive, manual, and slow services. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling expert calls, and synthesizing insights across fragmented providers. The process takes weeks to produce short-lived intelligence.

Qualitate transforms this workflow by autonomously conducting expert discussions at scale using AI. Qualitate’s AI Moderator interviews thousands of experts simultaneously each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. The platform turns these interviews into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies, queryable instantly in natural language. Our customers include some of the world’s largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.

## THE ROLE

Join Qualitate’s engineering team as a senior full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership across backend and frontend infrastructure. You’ll architect and ship commercially available APIs and data feeds, build interactive user interfaces and data visualizations in TypeScript and React, and manage infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and security. This is a high-ownership role. You’ll work directly with the founding team to define technical strategy and product roadmap, not just execute tickets.

The engineering team is small enough that your decisions shape the product. You’ll collaborate with the product and data analytics team to build what customers interact with every day, establish coding, testing, and deployment standards, and troubleshoot complex production issues. We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of experience building software who thrives in fast-moving environments where the technical surface area is wide and the team is lean.

## WHO THIS ROLE IS FOR

- 4+ years of experience building software. Ideally some of it in a startup or fast-paced environment where you owned full features end-to-end, not just individual components.
- Strong backend development skills. Experience with Node/TypeScript and frameworks like Express.js. You’ve shipped commercially available APIs and know how to build them for reliability and scale.
- Strong SQL optimization skills. You can write performant queries, optimize slow ones, and reason about data models at scale.
- Proficient with frontend technologies. Ideally React. You can build interactive user interfaces and data visualizations, not just wire up forms.
- Fluent with AI models and agentic coding tools. You use AI in your daily workflow and understand how to build with and around LLMs. This is core to how we work.
- High ownership, low ego. You work independently, communicate proactively, and don’t wait to be told what to build. You’re comfortable making architecture decisions and defending them in code review.

## WHAT SETS YOU APART

- You’ve developed an MCP server.
- Experience with real-time applications and/or WebSockets.
- Previous experience at a startup or high-growth company where you helped define the engineering culture.
- Background in financial services and/or market research.

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Base salary: Competitive, based on experience.
- Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant with upside tied to company growth.
- Benefits: Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays.
- Location: Full-time, in-person in New York City Mon-Weds, remote Thurs-Fri.

## WHAT TO EXPECT WORKING AT QUALITATE

- Excellence. You’ll be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar for quality and impact.
- High velocity. Fast-paced environment in terms of growth, decision-making, and time to impact.
- High agency. Ownership over how you work, not just what you work on. We hire people we trust to figure it out.
- A builder’s mindset. You’ll create the processes, playbooks, and systems that define how this company scales.
- Shared ambition. A small, early team disrupting the multi-billion dollar market research industry with AI.
- Joy. We work hard and genuinely enjoy working together. Dedication to our work is matched only by our passion for fostering an enjoyable, collaborative work environment.

## About Qualitate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Qualitate is an AI-powered expert intelligence platform that automates primary research for investment firms and enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage; raised $7M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Sagar Kadakia (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-native primary research, expert networks, market intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – investment firms (hedge funds, credit funds, private equity), financial services, and enterprise strategy teams
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Equipping every company with the world’s most valuable asset: expert intelligence.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Moderator**: An AI agent that autonomously conducts structured interviews with verified experts, from study design to moderation and insight creation.
- **Continuous Market Intelligence**: Dashboards that track company momentum, competitive threats, and market signals through 350,000+ minutes of expert conversations, analyst research, and curated data.
- **AI Analyst**: An AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, generate executive briefings, and launch custom surveys across the intelligence library.
- **Compliance Suite**: Automatic MNPI and PII screening, firm-level access controls, and a dedicated compliance portal for regulated environments.
- **Custom Research (Diligence, Win/Loss, Channel Checks)**: On-demand, AI-facilitated primary studies delivered in under a week (typically 5 days).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $7M seed round (announced in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named (listed only as “World-Class Investors”)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 25 employees as of mid-2025 with 12% monthly headcount growth (LinkedIn)
  - Proprietary data engine trained on 350,000+ minutes of expert discussions
  - Coverage of 500+ companies and 10,000+ technology markets
  - Trusted by “the world’s largest investment funds and corporations”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated**: Owns the expert panel, moderation, and analysis stack – no third-party dependencies or handoff gaps.
- **Proprietary data engine**: The AI moderator improves with every interview on the platform, creating a data moat that third-party networks cannot replicate.
- **Compliance-first design**: Built for sensitive environments with automated screening and firm-level controls.
- **Speed**: Custom research projects delivered in ~5 days versus the traditional multi-week timeline.

## Strategic Focus
Qualitate is focused on replacing fragmented, multi-vendor primary research workflows with a single AI-native platform. The company is scaling its AI moderator capability to run hundreds of interviews per project, moving from qualitative “outlier opinions” to quantitative, time-series market signals. Growth priorities include deepening coverage across financial services and enterprise verticals, and expanding the engineering and intelligence operations teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Highly collaborative, fast-shipping environment with “big ambition” – described as building a new category of primary research.
- **Work Model**: On-site in New York City (all current open roles are listed as “OnSite”).
- **Team Composition**: Small but growing (25 people) with heavy influence from top expert networks (GLG, AlphaSights, CB Insights) and data companies (YipitData, Gartner).
- **Impact**: Every team member directly shapes the mission; roles span engineering, intelligence operations, sales, and product design.
- **Current openings**: Staff Software Engineer, Founding Head of Talent, multiple Account Executives (Enterprise, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Credit Funds), and Intelligence Operations Associate – all New York City based.

## Sources
1. [qualitate.io](https://qualitate.io/)
2. [qualitate.io/about-us](https://qualitate.io/about-us)
3. [qualitate.io/careers](https://qualitate.io/careers)
4. [qualitate.io/product](https://qualitate.io/product)
5. [linkedin.com/company/qualitate-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualitate-io)

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