Founding Engineer for AI-Native Financial Services

A successful software-industry founder & CEO is seeking experienced engineers to build an AI-native financial services business.

The platform will combine traditional ERP functionality with embedded financial services and agentic workflows. It’s a doozy.

If that sounds like an exciting challenge, please read on.

You will be our first engineer(s), partnering directly with the founder (he's non-technical, but product-obsessed).

You'll have the opportunity to make platform technology decisions end-to-end, ensuring accuracy, security, reliability, and performance. Initially, you will also take on DevOps and other functions you might wish you could delegate.

You must have a product mindset – capable and interested in what we are building and why – rather than just living in the code. In fact, this role would be great for product managers who used to be engineers.

You must be an AI coding early adopter and believer. We’ve looking for people who have already achieved the 20x ideal by putting agents to work.

You must ensure our platform is production-ready, secure and reliable. We will hold bank feeds, tax IDs, payroll, health information and other private documents. This is serious stuff.

In this role, no one is coming to save you. You will enjoy freedom from bureaucracy and will make critical decisions, but with this comes the responsibility of doing it yourself and getting it right.

This is not a role for someone who wants a well-defined ticket queue and a team of doers (unless those doers are AI agents). We will add headcount deliberately over time, but very carefully.

Whippersnappers and whiz kids are welcome, but this could be a great opportunity for an older engineer who brings decades of experience, but remains incredibly curious and energetic.

We respect the 9/9/6 – have at it! But if you can drive extraordinary output while fitting in your workouts, blacksmithing and ham curing, that’s even better. You should be fulfilled.

Why might you love this role?

• Make architectural decisions and design from scratch.
• Solve complex problems on an AI-native stack.
• No big company stuff. Not even VC-backed company stuff.
• Remote work, if that’s what you prefer.
• Competitive pay weighted to cash or equity – you choose.

Why might you hate this role?

• If you want a lot of infrastructure in place.
• If you want a big team real soon.
• If you want to be told what to do next.
• If you don’t like to work hard.
• If ownership makes you uncomfortable.

Given limited capacity, we will only respond to candidate we hope to interview. We will not send out generic and superficial rejection messages. Thank you for understanding.