Founding Engineer
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The Role
We’re looking for a founding engineer to help build our product, technical foundation, and engineering culture.
You’ll work directly with the founders and customers to turn ambiguous, high-value problems into production software. You’ll have broad ownership over what we build, how we build it, and how quickly it reaches customers.
You’ll:
Build and own major product surfaces from first principles.
Develop AI systems for complex, high-stakes workflows.
Design reliable infrastructure and external integrations.
Work directly with customers to understand their operations and iterate quickly.
Help establish our technical standards and engineering culture.
What We’re Looking For
You:
Care deeply about solving customer problems.
Move quickly without compromising engineering judgment.
Are comfortable working across the stack.
Communicate clearly and thrive with substantial ownership.
Use AI coding agents fluently to multiply your output.
Live in San Francisco and are available to work in person with the team 5 days a week.
Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, applied AI, or data-intensive systems is helpful, but the ability to learn and execute matters more. You don’t need prior experience in lending or commercial real estate.
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