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Raydar

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $300K/yr

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to become the company's first technical hire and build the ... * Full-time founding-team position

Raydar

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $300K/yr

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to become the company's first technical hire and build the ... Full-time founding-team position

Thomas Talent Network

Founding Engineer

New York, NY

$200K - $270K/yr

About the Role Hiring a Founding Engineer to build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack ... Full-Time | Location: New York, NY -- In-person | Experience: 5-8+ years Compensation: $200,000 ...

Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$175K - $225K/yr

About the Role Join an early-stage consumer AI startup as a Founding Engineer - a rare 1-of-1 role ... Candidates must be willing and able to work in-person full-time.

Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$175K - $225K/yr

About the Role Join an early-stage consumer AI startup as a Founding Engineer -- a rare 1-of-1 role ... Candidates must be willing and able to work in-person full-time.

David Joseph & Company

Founding Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

$165K - $210K/yr

Palo Alto, CA · On-site (5 days/week) · Full-time Compensation: $165,000 - $210,000 + 0.2% - 0.5% ... The founding team previously ran engineering and product at a company they helped scale from under ...

David Joseph & Company

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$180K - $250K/yr

New York, NY · On-site (5 days/week) · Full-time Compensation: $180K - $250K + founding equity ... Founded by engineers who previously helped scale high-growth consumer platforms, the team has ...

David Joseph & Company

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$165K - $190K/yr

Type: Full-time | On-site | San Francisco, CA Compensation: $165K-$190K + meaningful early-stage ... You'd join as one of the first engineers, working directly with the founding team. Stage: seed ...

Mintex Technology

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$201K/yr

San Francisco, CA (On-Site) Employment Type: Full-Time with benfits Compensation: $201,000 Base ... Early or founding engineer experience. Experience at FAANG or other Big Tech companies in addition ...

Clera

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · Remote

$150K - $220K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineer position at an early-stage AI startup bringing AI ... Location This is a full-time, on-site role based in New York City, NY . Regular travel to partner ...

Clera

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $220K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineer position at an early-stage AI startup bringing AI ... Location This is a full-time, on-site role based in New York City, NY . Regular travel to partner ...

Raydar

Founding Engineer

Chelsea, NY · On-site

$180K - $250K/yr

This is a true founding engineering seat on a small, high-velocity team, with two hires planned ... Full-time, in-person role in Chelsea, New York City.

Upside

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

... full-time or on the side. 82% of knowledge workers want to diversify their work outside of a single ... We're now looking for our founding engineer to help us build the product that can support and ...

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AspectFull Time Founding EngineerFull Time Software Engineer
CredentialsRelevant technical degrees, startup experience often preferredComputer Science or related degree typically required
Work EnvironmentEarly-stage startup, high autonomy, broad responsibilitiesEstablished company, specialized roles, structured environment
Industry UsageCommon in startups and new venturesWidespread across tech companies and industries
Search & ComparisonOften compared for startup roles and entrepreneurial positionsCompared for corporate and established tech roles

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Founding Engineer

New York, NY • On-site

Raydar
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$150K - $300K/yr

Full-time

Posted 16 days ago

Job description

Our client is a pre-seed fintech company building an agentic neobank: an autonomous personal CFO designed to optimize cash, debt, budgeting, expenses, investing, and taxes. Founded in 2025 by a former senior financial-services leader at a global consulting firm, the company is starting with tools that help consumers get out of debt faster and is building toward an AI-native financial operating system.

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to become the company's first technical hire and build the product from prototype through MVP launch. You will own the architecture, stack, and technical standards across web, mobile, backend, cloud infrastructure, AI agents, and regulated money movement. This is a deeply hands-on 0-to-1 role with a clear path to technical leadership as the team grows.

What you'll do

• Build the MVP end to end across web, mobile, backend, data, and infrastructure

• Integrate banking-as-a-service partners, payment rails, card and lending systems, and KYC and AML services

• Design secure, resilient architecture for an agentic financial-services platform

• Build agentic workflows that make real-money decisions with deterministic logic, auditability, and compliance guardrails

• Select cloud, data, observability, disaster-recovery, and security approaches from first principles

• Set engineering standards for future hires while coordinating with contract engineers

• Ship production systems quickly without compromising trust, reliability, or regulatory requirements

Requirements

• 5 or more years of full-stack software-engineering experience

• A track record of building and shipping a product from zero to one for real users

• End-to-end ability across React or React Native, TypeScript, backend services, Python, and cloud infrastructure

• Hands-on experience building or deploying AI agents or agentic workflows in production

• Experience owning architecture for secure, reliable production systems

• Strong product judgment, bias for action, and comfort operating as the first technical hire

• Ability to work regularly from New York City or San Francisco within 12 to 18 months

Bonus points

• Experience at a US fintech startup in neobanking, banking-as-a-service, cards, lending, or payments rails

• Experience with KYC, AML, money movement, regulated data, or consumer financial products

• Familiarity with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and production AI safety patterns

• A computer-science or other technical degree

• Interest in growing into a technical leadership and management role

Benefits

• Base salary of $150K-$300K

• Founding-team equity of 1% to 4%

• Exceptional scope and direct influence over product, architecture, and company direction

• Visa transfers, OPT, and H-1B sponsorship may be available for exceptional candidates

• Remote-first for the first 12 to 18 months

• Transition to regular in-person or hybrid work in New York City or San Francisco after that period

• Full-time founding-team position