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.