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💻 Founding Engineer
💰 $140,000 - $190,000 + equity
📍 London → New York City
🗽 Fancy a move to New York?
A London-based fintech startup is planting its flag in New York - and they're looking for an engineer to make the move with them. Big ownership, big market, big city. 🍎
This is a genuine zero-to-one opportunity at a well-backed startup that's already live with clients, backed by serious investors, and solving a problem that's been broken for decades.
Company:
A well-funded fintech automating a critical but largely manual process inside financial services. Already live with clients and growing fast. Backed by institutional investors, with a founding team carrying serious pedigree from top-tier finance and tech.
The Role:
This is a founding engineer role - reporting directly to the CTO. No layers, no bureaucracy. This could suit someone with as little as 1-2 years of experience - what matters far more than years on a CV is the right mindset, strong fundamentals, and a track record of real ownership (or wanting it) in high-stakes environments.
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What you'll be building:
- Intelligent document and data ingestion systems
- Browser-based automation agents
- Greenfield work
- An evaluation suite to keep it all honest
Stack:
Python, TypeScript, React, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Evals, LLM, AI Agents.
You'll be a good fit if you...
- Have taken something from zero to production - ideally in fintech, a hedge fund, or another regulated industry
- Are comfortable with high ownership from day one
- Have a startup mindset - you want to help build something from the ground up
- Have built agentic systems beyond basic RAG
- Graduated from a top university with strong CS fundamentals
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💚 Why join?
- 🎯 Genuine founding equity
- 🚀 Real traction: Already live with clients in a massive, underserved market. This isn't pre-revenue speculation.
- 💡 Hard, interesting problems: Agentic systems, document intelligence at scale - all in a regulated, high-stakes environment.
- 🏦 Exceptional founding team
- ⚡ No layers: Direct line to the CTO and customers. Your work ships and you see the impact.
The Package:
$140,000 - $190,000 base + meaningful equity
Compensation details shared on first call / move to NYC
New York City - in person
Interview Process:
- Intro call
- Technical assessment
- Founder conversation and offer
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