Full-stack founding engineer

New York City

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In-office

$150-225k

salary +

(some - exact number TBD)

Full-stack

Finance

Brief description

This is a founding full-stack role for an early-ish stage startup detecting money laundering and other financial crimes. They're looking for opinionated veteran engineers who have a clear idea of what to build and why, particularly ones interested in leadership. This role could progress into management or even a future CTO role, so interest in people management is a big plus.

You'll work on a mix of infrastructure, security, front-end visual polish, and the actual detection of financial crimes themselves. It's OK if you lean more towards one side of the stack or the other, but you should be willing to work across it when needed.

Unusually for a startup, their back-end is in Java, which makes this a good opportunity for engineers with experience in more traditional strongly-typed languages who are interested in a startup environment.

This is a very people/leadership driven role, and won't be a good fit for people who want to stay in a silo and focus only on coding. They need people to set the tone and standards for more junior engineers and be decisive about what the right way to do things is.

What they're looking for

[Required]

  • Open to an in-office role in New York City. They are OK with Canadian citizens who want to relocate (using the easy-to-get TN visa).

  • 8+ years of experience

  • Experience as a tech lead

  • A desire for a highly collaborative/leadership-heavy role

  • Any three of the "nice-to-haves" listed below

[Nice-to-haves]

  • People management experience/interest

  • Background in fintech or other regulated industries

  • Familiarity with large Java codebases

  • Experience with AWS/k8s/other infrastructure tools

  • Experience with Postgres or other SQL dbs

  • Experience with Flink, Iceberg, or other data pipeline/infra tools

  • Experience with Python

  • Experience with Typescript, Next.js, React, and MUI

What they're offering

  • Salary: 150-225k cash + equity (exact equity amount trades off vs cash)

  • Work on an important problem. This isn't the next marketing SaaS, it's fighting real and serious crime - they catch drug dealers, child abusers, traffickers, and more.

  • A voice: they explicitly want opinionated people who have a clear idea of what should be done and why. "Um, actually"-style objections are an explicit goal here.