Founding Revenue Systems Engineer

What You Will Own

• The billing spine, end to end. Keyed developer access, metering, quota, spend caps, and per-platform origin stamps — the machinery that turns a free API into paid revenue. You architect it, ship it, and own the invoice that proves it is right.
• The commission engine. The affiliate ingestion, attribution, and reconciliation that carry the existing revenue line of around $22M a year. A few engineers and the founder keep it running today, each stretched thin; you take it and push it further than anyone has had the hours to.
• Two public cutovers. Anonymous API access ends August 15. Legacy free codes expire September 30. The keying and metering have to be live before the free lane closes, and both cutovers are yours to land.

Your Seat Charter

This is the model we run, not a claim that every operator already has one: inside your first quarter you co-sign a charter with one machine-checkable number that proves the seat is working, plus a written split of what you decide on your own and what you bring to the founder first.

The Verdict on What Ships

Agents write most of the code. The scarce thing is judgment — reading a system well enough to say why the code is right — and that verdict is yours, measured in dollars moved, not features shipped.

Who You Are

• You reason in invariants, failure modes, and tradeoffs, and you tie each one to the dollar it moves.
• You can read a system you have never seen well enough to sketch where it leaks money the same day.
• When a number looks wrong, you instrument the pipeline and find the mechanism rather than reaching for a different model and hoping.
• Agents are your production system. You direct them and you verify what comes back — you can do this job by hand and prove it, and that mastery is exactly what lets you trust or reject what an agent hands you.
• You treat its output as something you check, never something you accept on faith.
• The expensive thing here is a redo cycle, never the compute.
• You have owned a system where the outcome was real money — payments, billing, metering, an affiliate or commission ledger, attribution, fraud-scoring, or a search or marketplace system at scale.
• You can point at it and explain the mechanism that moved the number, not just show the chart.

Who this isn't for

• This seat is wrong if you stay in one lane and call the rest someone else's department.
• This seat is wrong if you measure yourself by features shipped instead of the revenue those features move, or if you want a commission ladder to climb rather than a number to own.
• This seat is wrong if you need a brand-name logo on your resume or a platform team beneath you to feel senior.
• This seat is wrong if you are comfortable shipping what an agent produced without being able to say why it is right.

How We Evaluate

• We don't run traditional engineering interviews. We evaluate demonstrated performance on work-relevant tasks, in five steps.
• Async video screen. Short and on your own time — five to six questions, about fifteen minutes. We want to see how you think, not how you present.
• Calls with company stakeholders. Short conversations with the people you would build beside.
• Conversation with the founder. How you model a system, where you push back, and whether you can defend a technical judgment in a live argument.
• Paid work trial. A paid four-day trial on real work in our real environment — a live piece of the money path, taken from grounding to a change you can prove moved a number. We watch four things: how you get grounded, whether you instrument before you guess, how you verify what your agents produce, and whether your self-assessment is honest.

Compensation & Ownership

• Total first-year compensation: $400,000 – $480,000 (base plus equity plus profit sharing).
• Base: $250,000 – $330,000 — top of market for the work.
• Profits Interest Units (PIUs) — Class B membership interests at a $0 strike, real ownership day one, capital-gains treatment; annual pro-rata profit sharing from free cash flow; annual tender liquidity; 100% family premium coverage; an AI tooling budget steered by return, never capped.