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Sunset

Guides venture-backed startups through dissolution

Full-Stack Product Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/19/2026
No salary listed
Mid
New York, NY, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringFull-Stack Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least three years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills and product and user-experience judgment.
  • Startup experience and comfort with broad ownership, changing context, and building without fully specified requirements.
  • Experience owning ambiguous problems from discovery through implementation, production operation, and iteration.
  • Ability to make complex workflows clear while reasoning about state, data integrity, testing, security, observability, and recovery.
  • Ability to use evidence to debug systems and measure outcomes.
  • Fluent use of modern artificial-intelligence engineering tools, including verifying their output and evaluating AI product behavior.
Responsibilities
  • Own ambiguous customer or internal-team problems from discovery through measurable production outcomes.
  • Build coherent vertical slices across frontend, backend, workflow state, data, testing, observability, security, and release.
  • Make complicated processes clear without hiding exceptions, uncertainty, or recovery paths.
  • Diagnose difficult production behavior and remove recurring root causes.
  • Establish useful measurements and improve customer, team, quality, or reliability outcomes.
  • Create reusable product and engineering capabilities that make later work faster and safer.
  • Use AI deeply in development and where it improves the product, with explicit evaluation and verification.
  • Work directly with Product, Design, customers, domain experts, and other engineers.
  • Build product experiences for transferring enterprise data from SaaS tools, APIs, files, and export processes, including provider-specific export journeys, long-running transfer state, failure recovery, contracts, fixtures, acceptance tests, provenance, and handoff health.
  • Build software that helps companies wind down operations, including onboarding, forms, documents, auctions, permissions, government obligations, operational closeout, workflow state, document generation or parsing, information reconciliation, and safe team intervention.
  • Build tools for the de-identification pipeline that show what ran, surface missed or incorrectly changed data, support delivery decisions, seed synthetic data with subtle failures, replay defects, construct golden examples, combine deterministic checks with bounded model-based judges, and enable investigation beyond individual metrics.
Desired Qualifications
  • Strong TypeScript, React, Node.js, or comparable full-stack experience.
  • Experience with integration-heavy SaaS, APIs, OAuth, uploads, files, or asynchronous workflows.
  • Experience with document workflows, internal tools, evaluation systems, data quality, or production diagnosis.
  • Experience building high-fidelity, resettable simulation or evaluation environments using synthetic data, seeded failure modes, multi-step state, and programmatic verifiers to test data or AI systems.
  • Experience with multi-tenant, compliance-sensitive, or otherwise high-trust products.
  • Experience shipping trustworthy AI-assisted workflows.

About the company

Sunset provides business dissolution consulting aimed at venture-backed tech startups that are winding down. It offers an end-to-end service package including due diligence, legal and accounting support, and assistance with asset sales. The model is fee-for-service, charging clients for the specific services they need. Sunset works by coordinating a team of specialists to manage the dissolution process, helping founders and investors save time and money while handling compliance, asset liquidation, and other closing activities. Distinguishing factors include its specialization in startup shutdowns for venture-backed companies and the integration of legal, financial, and transactional services under one roof to streamline the process. The company’s goal is to help clients wind down operations efficiently, reducing time, effort, and costs associated with dissolution.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$1.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • TechCrunch reported Sunset raised $1.45 million in February 2024, validating investor demand.
  • Sunset claims hundreds of wind-downs by 2026, signaling repeatable operational execution.
  • Acquire.com referrals create a steady funnel from acquisitions and acqui-hires into shutdowns.

What critics are saying

  • SimpleClosure raised $15 million in May 2025, outspending Sunset on automation.
  • Law firms and accounting firms already own dissolution workflows and client relationships.
  • If shutdown volume stalls, Sunset's referral-led model and narrow niche cap growth.

What makes Sunset unique

  • Sunset specializes in VC-backed startup wind-downs, not generic law-firm closings.
  • Its one-team model bundles attorneys, CPAs, and client success under one fee.
  • Acquire.com partnership targets post-sale stay-behind entities, a narrow and valuable niche.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Gym Membership

Company News

X Corp.
Mar 5th, 2024
Brendan Mahony on Twitter / X

"Sunset announced it has raised $1.45 million in seed funding to make the process of closing a company more affordable, quicker and less complicated."Thanks so much @bayareawriter for the incredible writeup on Sunset's recent fundraise and the ecosystem as a whole.…— Brendan Mahony (@bmaho2211) February 28, 2024

TechCrunch
Feb 27th, 2024
Why VCs are investing in startups that help other startups shut down

Earlier this month, equity management startup Carta revealed that it was getting into the game as well with a new offering called Carta Conclusions.