Affluent.co
Founding AI Engineer
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About the opportunity
We're hiring the founding technical builder for one of our portfolio companies. The company isn't named publicly at this stage; shortlisted applicants receive the full picture, including the company, the first project, and the long-term path, before committing to anything.
You'll be building systems for established companies with the purpose of increasing profit margins and efficiency. Real workflows, real users, revenue-relevant systems from week one. As the first technical hire, you'll set the standards everything after you is built on.
What you'll own
- We bring the system thesis; you pressure-test it and shape the scope with us
- You design and build enterprise-grade systems: agentic workflows, databases, APIs, front and back end UI/UX
- You ship properly: simulations, permissions, monitoring, security, error handling, documentation
- You turn each build into reusable components so the next similar project is faster
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Who we're looking for
- A software developer by background (2+ years professionally) who has since gone deep on AI-assisted development and now builds dangerously fast with tools like Claude Code, Cursor or similar
- You've shipped complex systems that real businesses run on, and you've watched them break, fixed them, and hardened them
- You own outcomes without hand-holding: given a clear thesis and access, you come back with working software and the decisions you made along the way
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Terms
- $8,000-$13,000 per month, experience depending. Initial 12-week term
- Full-time is the default; a 3-4 day initial structure is possible for exceptional candidates with existing commitments
- Application finalists conduct a paid practical trial. We never ask for free work
- If the initial term goes well, the role converts to the permanent founding technical position: competitive base salary plus meaningful equity options, with that offer put in writing by week 8
- You'll work directly with our founder
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