What You'll Bring

• 2 to 4 years of professional engineering experience, or work that makes the years irrelevant
• Deep fluency in React / Next.js and Node.js / TypeScript / Postgres: not just comfortable, but fast
• AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) are already baked into how you work. You're not planning to explore them someday; you've shipped with them
• Something real you've built: a product, an open source project, a thing you couldn't stop working on
• You operate well with ambiguity. You don't wait to be handed the answer.
• You actually care whether the person on the other end of the screen has a good experience

Strong Candidates May Also...

• You've touched federal, state, or local government tech, or you understand the constraints of building for regulated, high-stakes environments
• Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry or AIP: you've modeled against the ontology or shipped pipelines or AIP agents
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, ECS/Fargate)
• Exposure to design systems and component libraries: you know the difference between a component that's functional and one that's right
• You've worked in an early-stage environment where figuring it out was the job

What Kaizen Offers

Health & Insurance

• 100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam — all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.
• $100,000 in fully paid life insurance. FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
• One Medical membership, on us — same-day primary care, 24/7 virtual visits, and offices all over the city.
• Fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
• 401(k) through Guideline, with a 2% company match.

Family & Time Off

• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents. 10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents.
• Unlimited PTO, with a two-week minimum (we mean it when we say take time off!)
• Closed for all federal holidays.
• Company-wide winter break the week of Christmas.
• Company offsites throughout the year.

Office & Remote Setup

• Up to $750 one-time home office or desk setup stipend for NYC-based employees. $500 for remote employees.
• $50/month commuter benefit (company contribution).
• Expensed lunch while in the office.
• Dinner and Uber rides home will be expensed if you choose to work in the office past 7pm.
• Company-provided laptop of your choice.

Wellness

• NYC employees: Fully covered gym membership at Grindhouse — right across the street from our office at 47 W 17th St (and in Williamsburg). A $225/month value, on us.
• Non-NYC employees: $100 per month, dedicated to gym / physical fitness reimbursement.

Stipends

• $100/month utility stipend.
• $250/quarter home cleaning stipend
• $500/year professional development.
• $250/year recreation.
• $300/quarter pet care stipend.

Compensation: $160K - $230K