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Founding Engineer

Finic (YC W23)
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/30/2026
Finic is looking for a founding engineer to help us tackle a multi-deca-billion industry - financial crime detection. This role is closer to a forward deployed engineer than full stack engineer, but with plenty of flexibility in scope depending on the candidates skills, preferences, and the company’s evolving needs.

About Finic

  • Finic detects and investigates financial crimes using AI. Our customers are banks, fintechs and marketplaces in the US.
  • $X,000,000 in enterprise pilots either ongoing or starting soon
  • 2 cofounders, both ex-Robinhood. CEO was founding PM of Robinhood's internal fraud platform
  • Zero employees
  • $1.2M raised

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with enterprise customers to understand their pain points
  • Design and implement solutions using gen AI, Python, Typescript, and AWS
  • Keep customer engagements on track from POC to pilot to production
  • Some domestic travel may be required

Perks

  • Option for cash heavy or equity heavy compensation
  • A mission you can feel good about - our work directly protects everyday Americans from getting scammed and defrauded

The Ideal Candidate

  • Has experience working as a forward deployed engineer at another enterprise AI company (Palantir, Scale, startups, etc)
  • OR has experience as a founder or employee #1-10
  • Is comfortable shipping code on a regular basis but also loves talking to customers
  • Understands how to leverage AI effectively, both as a tool and as part of a product
  • Must be based in the SF bay area or NYC or willing to relocate

Salary : $125,000 - $250,000

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