Founding Backend Engineer
Trove
| Company | Trove |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 175k–300k |
| Posted | 17 Jun 2025 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
About Trove
- Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms - think enterprise search & agents for private equity, hedge funds, and banks
- Our mission is to deliver associate‑level AGI
- We’ve raised nearly $10M from Menlo and Khosla Ventures
- We have strong initial traction - large enterprise contracts and user engagement on par with best-in-class B2B AI applications
Why this role?
- High impact: You’ll shape the product and culture from day one. Expect to dive into unsolved challenges at the Gen AI application frontier – enterprise‑scale data retrieval, autonomous agents, and knowledge graphs.
- High equity: 0.5%+ equity. $175K - 300K cash. You will own a meaningful piece of the company.
- High talent density: Be a part of a great founding team in SF.
- Shivaal Roy (CTO) was a founding engineer at Glean ($100M+ ARR today) and managed the Assistant and Search teams, where he solved similar problems.
- Danny Goldman (CEO) was a top performer at Bain’s Private Equity group
What you’ll do
- Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human-level capabilities
- Design and build novel knowledge graphs algorithms to power search and retrieval over unstructured and structured firm data
- Collaborate with the top AI labs and elite financial firms to design reliable AI-native systems
Who you are
- Track record of extraordinary ability
- 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience
- Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF
- Nice but not required: experience with LLMs, search and retrieval, previous work at a financial firm
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