Role OverviewJoin a small, highly driven team at an early stage, working directly with the founders and an experienced engineering team. As a Founding Engineer, you'll have significant ownership over the product, architecture, and technical direction as the company scales.
What You Will Do
Build agent-driven workflows, own AI evaluation infrastructure, extend the fiduciary ledger, build for correctness, work directly with customers and the business, build financial and compliance integrations, design security-first infrastructure, contribute across the product, and own projects end to end.
Why It Might Be a Fit
Ideal candidate has 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with approximately 3–10 years being the ideal range. Experience building and shipping production software, primarily on the backend, and a track record of taking projects from an initial idea or blank page through production delivery.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience building and shipping production software, primarily on the backend
- A track record of taking projects from an initial idea or blank page through production delivery
- Experience working at an early- or mid-stage startup, ideally Series B or earlier
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate user problems into technical requirements, priorities, and an engineering backlog
- Strong relational database fundamentals, particularly PostgreSQL
- Experience building reliable production systems where data integrity and correctness matter
- Practical experience using AI coding tools and AI agents as part of everyday engineering work
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and take responsibility for outcomes
- Comfort working directly with founders, business stakeholders, and customers
- Willingness to contribute across the backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product as needed
- Ability to work on-site in New York City five days per week
- Must already have U.S. work authorization
Benefits
- Base salary: $175,000–$250,000
- Equity: 0.5%–1.25% founding-engineer equity
- Four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff
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