Founding Engineer

WHAT IS PAYME PayMe helps everyday people find and claim money they are already owed, from class action settlements, mass arbitrations, unclaimed funds, and more. It is a fast-growing consumer fintech product where product quality, speed, trust, and execution all matter at once. WHAT WE NEED PayMe needs a founding engineer who can take vague goals, figure out what matters, and implement basically anything needed to move the business forward. This is a true full-stack builder role. We want someone with strong product judgment who can turn ambiguity into shipped product. WHO YOU ARE - Agentic engineer, meaning AI writes most code and you are genuinely more powerful because of it - Consumer product or fintech instincts are a plus - Fast-paced, high-agency experience, often in seed or series A environments - Comfortable shipping without a fully written PRD - Clear product taste and evidence of shipped work - Strong individual contributor, not an engineering manager profile WHY IT'S EXCITING - You will join a very small engineering team and help shape its next chapter - You will own meaningful product and engineering decisions early - You will work on a real consumer product with real scale and real urgency - You will work on a small team where good ideas ship fast WHAT YOU OWN - The highest-leverage product and engineering work across PayMe - Turning fuzzy problems into concrete plans, technical choices, and shipped product - Working shoulder-to-shoulder with product, growth, and design - Using AI heavily, because almost all code here is expected to be written with AI assistance - Helping set the engineering tone as one of the earliest dedicated engineers on PayMe WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - Important product work ships fast and actually changes outcomes - Engineering is no longer a bottleneck on PayMe’s highest-leverage work - The team can hand you vague goals and trust you to make strong product and technical decisions - You raise the bar on speed, ownership, and leverage WHAT YOU'RE NOT HERE TO DO - Be a narrow specialist who avoids product work - Wait for a perfect PRD before moving - Optimize for process over output - Act like a manager before proving you can build OUR PROCESS - 15 min screen with Kinetic's Lead Engineer - Half-day async paid project - Deep dive with PayMe's General Manager - Team conversations - Final in-office day Target turnaround ~2 weeks from start to finish.