Founding Product Engineer

About this role

Join a well-funded fintech startup as a founding product engineer, taking end-to-end ownership of major features for a consumer app with 40,000+ waitlist members. You'll work across the full stack (React, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL) alongside the founding team to build and ship high-quality financial products.

What you'll do

• Design and deliver features across the core product, marketing site, and internal tools
• Own major product areas end-to-end from concept through launch
• Collaborate with founder, lead engineer, and designer on architecture and implementation
• Build and integrate APIs using React, TypeScript, Go, and PostgreSQL
• Scale the product to meet growing consumer demand
• Use AI tools to accelerate development velocity

What they're looking for

• TypeScript and React
• Go backend development
• PostgreSQL and Redis
• AWS, Terraform, and Docker
• REST or GraphQL API design and integration
• B2C/consumer product experience
• Full-stack web development
• AI coding assistants (nice to have)

Benefits

• Salary: $190,000–$210,000 USD annually
• Early-stage equity
• Hybrid work in San Francisco (LA/NYC candidates also considered)
• Work with a small, senior founding team
• Broad ownership and high autonomy