Full-stack founding engineer
New York City
-
In-office
Wide range around
190k
+
(some - exact number TBD)
equity
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 (and possible later people management, though this role does not immediately involve people management).
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).
5+ 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.