Founding Engineer
Ropes
Founding Engineer
Ropes
AI-powered technical assessments for hiring
TL;DR: We're looking for founding engineers to help us build human-focused security tech, reinvent skill-based interviewing, and transform how the the $4T+ contingent workforce industry operates
About Ropes
Ropes is building anti-fraud technology for hiring. DPRK operatives, fake candidates, proxy interviews, and AI-assisted cheating are now common in the contingent labor market. We help staffing, services, and the F500 catch them before they get hired and monitor them after they start their jobs.
Company highlights:
Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 14 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics
Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more
Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with hundreds of customers - including the largest staffing firm in the world and multiple large enterprises
Market opportunity: Our customers are both the suppliers of short-term "contingent" labor and the buyers of that labor. We're working to reinvent how both sides of this market identifies and allocates quality talent from the ground up.
What You'll Do:
Define the new standard of technical interviewing that retires LeetCode and transforms how companies evaluate talent
Use AI to detect fraud, identify patterns in candidate performance, and accelerate the hiring process
Who You Are:
You want to solve problems end-to-end and own what you build
You're proficient in modern full-stack development (React, Node.js, Python, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
You're highly technical with strong coding fundamentals and a bias toward quality
You're comfortable in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment
Why Ropes:
Early impact: Join at the exact inflection point—past product-market fit, before scaling takes over
Ownership: As one of the first engineering hires, you'll shape technical decisions and own critical systems
This is an on-site role in New York City - designed for builders who want to change how the world hires talent.
Ropes.ai provides an AI-powered platform that assesses technical talent for engineering and IT roles. Its core product is an asynchronous coding assessment that mimics a live onsite interview; it generates role-specific challenges from a client’s job description and stack and evaluates the entire problem-solving process, not just final code, delivering detailed scorecards similar to human interview feedback. The platform includes anti-cheating features, dynamic difficulty, and real-world simulations, and it integrates with applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse to fit into existing recruiting workflows. Ropes aims to bridge the gap between technical evaluation and on-the-job performance while reducing live-interview costs and bias, and it plans to expand into additional domains such as nursing, design, and finance with ongoing AI-enabled talent validation.
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