Founding Engineer
Summary
Founding engineer at Spring, a Series A AI-native lender, building an AI CFO agent and extending in-house lending, payments, and bank-transaction analysis systems. Day to day: strong Python backend work, daily AI-native coding with agents, and owning projects as an early technical leader. On-site in New York; $175k-$250k plus equity.
Founding Engineer
Company: Confidential — AI-native lender
Location: New York, NY (in person)
Compensation: $175,000 - $250,000 + meaningful equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: No visa sponsorship
About the Company
The client is an AI-native lender. In its first eight months it built its own loan management, payment rails and bank-transaction analysis software, which let it originate over $100 million in funding to consumer packaged goods brands in its first year.
The client is now building the product that infrastructure was designed to power: an AI CFO agent that works across a brand's entire financial stack. It is a Series A company.
The Role
The client is hiring a Founding Engineer (0-5 years) who can act as a self-motivated tech lead and ramp fast on its AI CFO agent and lending platform.
What You Will Do
- Build the AI CFO agent across deductions, email workflows and financial operations.
- Extend the in-house lending, payments and financial-analysis systems.
- Work AI-natively with coding agents every day.
- Own projects with little hand-holding as an early technical leader.
What You Bring
- 0-5 years of engineering (hard cap at 5)
- An excellence signal: notable startup, big tech or top university CS
- Strong Python backend fundamentals
- Daily use of AI coding tools
Nice to Have
- Quant or HFT engineering background
- Active GitHub, side projects or hackathon wins
Benefits
Meaningful equity.
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