Founding Engineer
About the Role
This is a founding engineering role at a Y Combinator-backed, seed-stage AI fintech startup building an AI-native financial research platform for professional investors in the healthcare sector. You will be one of the first engineers on a three-person team, owning infrastructure, agentic systems, and the full stack end to end. Your work will directly shape how the product is built and how reliably it serves institutional investors.
What You'll Do
Ship across the full stack: frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.
Build data pipelines and internal tools that let analysts add new sources and maintain sector coverage faster and more reliably.
Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems, making AI agents more capable and dependable in production.
Own work end to end: inspecting data, QA, instrumentation, shipping, and fixing issues in production.
In your first 30 days: integrate a new data source, improve system speed or reliability, build a company ontology, and ship the first version of a core product module.
What We're Looking For
2 to 7 years of professional experience building, shipping,
