Leela
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Leela
- Location
- New York City Metropolitan Area
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- Not disclosed
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-25 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
FOUNDING SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (FORWARD DEPLOYED) — CUSTOMER PIPELINES & SOLUTIONS Leela is building continuous, agentic regulatory compliance for financial services — replacing manual obligation tracking with AI that reasons about regulations and produces verifiable, trustworthy results. ABOUT THE ROLE You're the engineer in the room with the customer. Our platform delivers value once a customer's regulatory landscape is loaded, indexed, and wired in — and you'll own that end to end. You write code, talk to compliance leaders, and turn ambiguous needs into working systems. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Build and operate data-ingestion pipelines that bring large volumes of external regulatory data into the platform. • Integrate messy, multi-format source data (APIs, structured documents, web sources) into a clean, structured model. …
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