What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Software Engineer position at ACASO?
About ACASO
ACASO is an AI-native financial operations platform helping businesses navigate financial uncertainty.
We analyze contracts, invoices, payments, and receivables to identify discrepancies, surface risks, track obligations, and prepare recovery actions before issues become costly.
Today, finance teams spend hours reviewing documents, chasing payments, managing contracts, and piecing together information across multiple systems. We're building a future where AI continuously monitors financial operations and helps organizations take action before problems turn into losses.
We're early, moving fast, and looking for builders who want to help shape both the product and the company.
The Role
We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help build the intelligence layer behind ACASO.
You'll work directly with the founders to design and build the systems that power document understanding, financial reasoning, agent workflows, and automated financial operations.
This is a high-ownership role. You'll have significant influence over product direction, technical architecture, and how AI is integrated throughout the platform.
If you enjoy turning messy real-world problems into production-ready AI systems, you'll fit right in.
What you'll work on
- Building AI workflows that analyze contracts, invoices, payment activity, and financial records
- Designing agent systems that investigate issues and generate recommended actions
- Developing document extraction, matching, and reasoning pipelines
- Improving retrieval, context management, and AI orchestration strategies
- Building evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy and reliability
- Prototyping new AI capabilities and shipping them quickly
- Collaborating directly with founders, customers, and pilot partners
- Helping shape the long-term AI strategy of the company
We're looking for someone who
- Loves building and shipping
- Is comfortable working in ambiguity
- Can move quickly from idea to implementation
- Has experience working with LLMs and AI-powered products
- Has strong Python and backend engineering skills
- Thinks critically about AI reliability, evaluation, and product design
- Is excited about startups and building something from the ground up
Bonus
- Experience with agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph, DSPy, or similar frameworks
- Experience with OCR, document processing, or information extraction
- Experience building AI products from 0 → 1
- Startup experience
- Open-source contributions
- Interest in fintech, enterprise software, or operational workflows
Why join?
- Build core product features, not internal tools
- Work directly with founders
- Own meaningful technical decisions
- Help define the future of AI-powered financial operations
- Join early enough to have a real impact on the company
Location: Remote
Stage: Early-stage startup