New York City, NY · On-site (5 days/week preferred) · Full-time
Compensation: $240,000–$270,000 + 0.5%–1% equity

About the Company

A Series A AI startup automating manual risk and compliance operations for fintechs and banks. Its reasoning engine ingests third-party contracts, internal policies, legal commitments, and external legislation to auto-surface and track risks, cutting partner diligence time by roughly 10x without added headcount. The company reached $1M–$2M ARR within two months of its Series A and runs with a small, elite, fast-shipping engineering team.
Founded 2023 · 1–10 people · Industry: Fintech / Compliance / AI

The Role

We're hiring full-stack engineers to expand two product lines (vendor risk management and marketing compliance, including a dedicated ML track). You'll ship across the stack, work directly with customers weekly, drive your own roadmap, and operate at near-founder level alongside the founding team — with a path to leading expansion into new product areas.

What you'll be doing

• Build and ship full-stack features across Python, FastAPI, React, and Next.js
• Work directly with customers weekly, translating feedback into improvements that work for all clients
• Drive roadmap items based on your own customer interactions and product vision
• Build infrastructure and systems that are extensible and scalable, not just fast
• Contribute to architectural and technical decisions alongside the founding team
• Lead expansion into new product areas as the company grows

Tech stack: Python, FastAPI, React, Next.js

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years full-stack engineering experience, staff-level thinking
• Python and FastAPI backend proficiency
• React and Next.js frontend proficiency
• High agency, identifies and solves problems without being asked
• Customer-facing, can interface with clients weekly
• Cares about product quality and real user impact

Green Flags

• Has worked at or would meet the bar for top-tier companies like Anthropic or Clay
• Startup experience, especially building products from zero to one and seeing them grow with real users
• Infrastructure or backend engineering background that demonstrates holistic systems thinking
• Degree from Caltech, MIT, UIUC, Waterloo, or equivalent top engineering program
• Founder mentality, has started something, led something, or talks about their work in terms of outcomes not just implementation
• Can articulate how what they built was actually being used, cares about adoption and user impact not just technical elegance

Red Flags

• Entire career spent at big tech with no startup exposure, often comes with risk aversion and process expectations that do not fit a 7-person team
• Talks about their work purely in technical specifications with no connection to whether it was actually used or drove value
• Needs structured processes and handoffs to operate effectively
• Not willing to be customer-facing
• Not based in or willing to relocate to New York City, in-person culture is important to the team

Why Join

• Near-founder ownership: drive your own roadmap from direct customer interactions, with a path to leading new product areas
• Elite, flat, fast-shipping team holding a very high engineering bar
• Strong early traction and meaningful equity for early hires

Details

Location New York City, NY Work policy On-site, 5 days/week preferred with some flexibility; relocation assistance case-by-case Compensation $240,000–$270,000 + 0.5%–1% equity Visa sponsorship None Employment type Full-time