NYC startup hiring snapshot
- Recent social posts list active NYC hiring for founding and senior engineering roles across payments, fintech, and health. - Open roles cited include Trellis founding/backend engineer (NYC preferred, $200K+ equity), protocol engineers ($120K–$300K), and Angle Health engineers ($100K–$160K). - These listings signal concrete opportunities for enterprise engineers thinking about an early-stage move in New York (x.com).
New York startup hiring posts this month show live demand for engineers who want founding-level scope, with several roles clustered around payments, fintech, and health. (x.com) One opening making the rounds is a founding backend engineer role for a fintech and payments startup with New York City strongly preferred and compensation listed at $200,000 base plus equity. A related posting says the first full-time technical hire would help ship a minimum viable product in three to six months and design core systems such as ledgers and stablecoin payouts. (techotlist.com) (dailyremote.com) Another active New York listing seeks a protocol engineer for Web3 payments infrastructure at $120,000 to $300,000 plus equity. The job description says the work covers smart contracts, cross-chain systems, and decentralized finance rails built for high-volume transactions. (lensa.com) (pulserisetechnologies.freshteam.com) Angle Health is also hiring software engineers in New York, with salary ranges listed at $100,000 to $160,000 for a new-grad opening. Its Ashby posting says the role is on-site in New York and spans frontend and backend product work for members and internal teams. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) (builtin.com) The mix matters because these are not generic software jobs. The fintech roles center on money movement, audit trails, and payment infrastructure, while the health role sits inside an insurer building member-facing and internal tools. (dailyremote.com) (jobs.ashbyhq.com) The titles also point to different entry points into early-stage companies. “Founding engineer” usually means joining as one of the first technical hires with broad product and architecture ownership, while “protocol engineer” points to lower-level systems work on the rules that move assets across networks. (wellfound.com) (pulserisetechnologies.freshteam.com) New York’s startup boards still show a deep market behind those posts. Top Startups lists thousands of startup openings in New York, and Web3 Career shows active protocol-engineering demand across crypto and blockchain employers, including New York listings. (topstartups.io) (web3.career) For engineers weighing a move, the current snapshot is straightforward: New York startups are still paying up for backend, infrastructure, and product talent, especially in companies where the first hires are expected to build the core systems themselves. (x.com) (techotlist.com)
