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Software Engineer (Founding Engineer)

Jobot
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2025 CLOSED ON 4/19/2025

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Amazing Benefits Equity

This Jobot Job is hosted by: Ryan Kilroy
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Salary: $150,000 - $180,000 per year

A bit about us:

Experienced Founders: Our founders have a wealth of experience, including many failures and learnings, raising funds from Sequoia/Icon, and one exit to a Fortune 500 company.

Traction: We have happy customers using our platform today.
Funding: We are well-funded.
Hiring Philosophy: We hire for passion, work ethic, and attitude. We believe that everything can be learned.

Why join us?

Why it's worth joining now:
  • Few things in life are as special as doing meaningful work with great people. We offer both
  • Opportunity to 10x your learning curve
  • Shape the future of our products and our culture
  • Build a generational company and say you were there on day 1

Results so far:
  • Most startups take years to validate their idea. We've done it in under 60 days.
  • Live product with paying and happy early customers. Our product is already delivering results. One company saw a 122% cash-on-hand increase in a month
  • A pipeline of deals (10 )
  • We built: AI-powered collections, dispute resolution, and a GTM strategy that's already driving results
  • Enterprise demand is real. We reached a $650K ACV 4th demo with a global finance team
  • Most finance software is slow to integrate and painful to adopt. We are winning because we are the opposite.

Pitch points:
  • Huge market opportunity - The company is targeting a $125 trillion market in B2B payments.
  • Experienced founding team - The founders have backgrounds at companies like D. E. Shaw, Snap, Minecraft, and previously sold a Sequoia-backed company to F500 for >$100M
  • Recent traction - The company raised an oversubscribed seed round in about a week.
  • Opportunity to be an early, high-impact hire - The role is for a founding engineer, so the candidate would have the chance to be one of the first hires and shape the company.
  • Significant equity upside
  • We are all in. Expect motivated teammates
  • Freedom and trust. #1 way to learn is by building and you will have complete freedom to execute. You will likely produce more stuff with us in a month than you would at most companies in a year .

What We Offer:
  • Competitive Compensation: Significantly above market salary and equity.
  • Motivated Team: Work with highly motivated teammates.
  • Benefits: Health and dental coverage.
  • Meals: Lunch and dinner paid for 6 days a week.
  • Freedom & Trust: Complete freedom to execute and learn by building. You'll likely produce more with us in a month than at most companies in a year.


Job Details

What You'll Do:

  • Feature Ownership: Take charge of multiple features across our customer-facing app, back-end infrastructure, and internal systems.
  • Development & Deployment: Build and ship these features to production.
  • Collaborative Work: Work closely with our customers and team members.
  • Autonomy & Freedom: Enjoy maximum autonomy and freedom to do your best work.

About You:

  • Experience: 1 years of production-level experience in shipping code to users.
  • Ownership: You take initiative, solve problems, and take pride in your solutions.
  • Drive: You have an extreme drive and desire to win.
  • Location: Based in NYC or willing to relocate after a paid trial.
  • Bonus Points: If you are an ex-founder, drop-out, have shipped SaaS before, or are world-class in a domain (e.g., gaming, athletics, poker).


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Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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Salary : $150,000 - $180,000

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