Founding Engineer

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate complete services and user-facing features, from requirements gathering through production support
• Develop highly available, event-driven systems for ledgering, compliance, and risk that scale with transaction volume while maintaining zero downtime
• Embed with customers, collect feedback, and iterate rapidly to ensure our roadmap aligns with user needs

Required Skills & Experience

• 2–5+ years of professional software engineering, including the delivery of 0-to-1 products and scaling them in production
• Proficiency in at least two of: Next.js/TypeScript, C#, Go, Python
• Hands-on expertise with asynchronous and event-driven architectures
• Full-stack ownership spanning modern front-end frameworks, back-end services, and cloud infrastructure
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to influence internal and external cross-functional stakeholders
• Proven expertise with AI-assisted development tools—especially Cursor or windsurf, to accelerate code generation, refactoring, and automated test creation

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience deploying lightweight machine-learning models for real-time anomaly detection, automated compliance reporting, or incident triage in production systems
• Experience designing and contributing to fintech, payments, or ledgering systems (e.g., double-entry ledgers, payments, clearing, or settlement)
• Experience integrating banking, payments, or compliance providers, or a demonstrated ability to onboard unfamiliar financial APIs quickly
• Prior leadership or mentorship in a high-growth engineering team