Founding Engineer

Kinetic•New York, NY

9h•Onsite

About The Position

PayMe is a fast-growing consumer fintech product that helps everyday people find and claim money they are already owed from class action settlements, mass arbitrations, unclaimed funds, and more. Product quality, speed, trust, and execution are all critical. PayMe needs a founding engineer who can take vague goals, identify priorities, and implement solutions to drive business forward. This is a full-stack builder role requiring strong product judgment to transform ambiguity into shipped product.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

Take vague goals and figure out what matters to implement solutions that move the business forward.
Turn ambiguity into shipped product.
Own meaningful product and engineering decisions early.
Work on a real consumer product with real scale and real urgency.
Work on a small team where good ideas ship fast.
Own the highest-leverage product and engineering work across PayMe.
Turn fuzzy problems into concrete plans, technical choices, and shipped product.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with product, growth, and design.
Use AI heavily, as almost all code is expected to be written with AI assistance.
Help set the engineering tone as one of the earliest dedicated engineers on PayMe.