Founding Software Engineer
Description
About the company
Our client is a fintech company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build backend systems and data-heavy services for a regulated financial platform, taking initiatives from early planning through to launch while helping set the technical direction of a small engineering team.
What you'll do
- Design and build automated workflows for regulated financial operations, including transaction monitoring, compliance checks and document handling.
- Build and extend an accounting ledger that tracks income and principal, with correctness enforced in the database and API layers.
- Create evaluation tooling and test pipelines for AI-assisted features, including repeatable checks in CI/CD.
- Partner with operations leads and founders to learn user pain points and convert them into requirements and a prioritized backlog.
- Build integrations with payment providers, compliance vendors and financial institutions, weighing build-versus-buy decisions on correctness and security.
- Design security-focused infrastructure covering authentication, encryption of sensitive data, audit logging and observability.
- Contribute to frontend work that makes complex legal and financial structures easier to understand.
- Own initiatives end to end, from early planning through release, and help define the long-term technical foundations of the company.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 3 or more years building production systems, mainly on the backend.
- Prior experience launching new systems from scratch at a small, early-stage technology company, ideally in an early engineering, founding or lead capacity.
- Comfort owning several areas at once with little structure, including defining requirements without being told what to do.
- Daily use of AI coding tools in your development work.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week.
- Strong production relational database skills, including schema design, constraints and migrations.
Bonus points
- Hands-on experience with LLM workflows, such as agent harnesses, evaluation loops or agent tooling.
- A strong security mindset.
- Deep PostgreSQL or DevOps experience.
- Background in fintech or another regulated industry.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 250,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week
- Full-time