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$150,000 - 250,000/ year

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Description

We're looking for our first Founding Engineer to join us. No audit or accounting experience is required.

Responsibilities

  • Build agentic workflows that perform complex, multi-step audit tasks
  • Work on retrieval, structured extraction, citations/provenance, OCR, and long-context reasoning across complex documents and messy enterprise data
  • Own and ship features end-to-end, from idea to customers
  • Diagnose issues quickly and ship fixes
  • Proactively identify and suggest product and technical improvements
  • Your first three months with us
  • Week one: Ship your first feature to production
  • Month one: Own increasingly complex features end-to-end
  • Quarter one: Own a meaningful surface area of the product, proactively identifying improvements and driving solutions from idea to production
  • Who we're looking for
  • A track record of building and shipping real software, whether through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects
  • Strong Python and backend engineering skills
  • Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools
  • Moves quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, with strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask
  • Clear, proactive communicator
  • Comfortable figuring things out without an established playbook
  • Excited to work intensely alongside the founding team: we're an in-person team in San Francisco and typically work 9/9/6
  • We care much more about what you've built, how you think, and how quickly and efficiently you can execute than checking specific credential boxes.
  • Strong bonuses
  • Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing
  • Experience building full-stack products
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and/or distributed systems
  • Built your own products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects
  • Been an early hire at a startup or worked on an early-stage team
  • Why the company
  • You'll join early enough to have a meaningful impact on the product, architecture, and engineering culture. You'll work on real AI systems used in high-stakes workflows, where outputs need to be accurate, traceable, and reviewer-ready.
  • We're a close-knit team that works hard, moves quickly, and invests in making the experience fun. Perks include free lunch and dinner, unlimited coffee/matcha/boba, team outings and offsites, and the AI tools you need to do your best work :)
  • Interview Process
  • Intro call
  • Technical interview
  • In-person work trial
  • Offer + celebratory dinner with the team
  • Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, Multimodal AI
  • Experience: Any (new grads ok)
  • Visa: Will sponsor

Where you’d work

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The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, moderately crowded, and a person reads your message.

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  • 3 red flags

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Actively hiring

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  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 4 h agoModerate evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Posted 4 weeks agoSlight evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Moderate

In its favour2

  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Open for 4 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence
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Tech stack
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • LLMs
  • RAG
Type
Full-time
Specialty
Backend
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Tech stack
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • LLMs
  • RAG

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$150,000 - 250,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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