What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at Product Pulse?
We’re an AI-native lender and our team spent the first eight months of the business building completely novel in- house software: loan management systems, payment rails infrastructure, and technology for analyzing business bank transactions and financials. That foundation enabled us to raise over $100 million in funding for CPG brands within its first year. We’re now building the product that all of that infrastructure was designed to power: an AI CFO agent.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to work primarily on the new AI CFO agent. This role is tech-lead-level autonomy from day one. You will own and deliver on the agent's tool surface and trajectory quality, ramp up quickly without spoon-feeding, and operate as a self-sufficient builder. The time split is approximately 75% for new AI agent work and 25% for the existing lending infrastructure. The role is primarily backend Python, with exposure to TypeScript frontend development. No customer-facing work or formal product ownership is expected. You will be in the trenches building, but you will be socialized and excited about the product, not just talking to a database in a corner.
What You'll Own
- Build and extend the AI CFO agent's tool surface so it can complete tasks that currently take a CFO or CEO an hour or more
- Improve agent trajectory quality, breadth, and depth of tools so the agent reliably ships magical, end-to-end outcomes
- Compose existing scoped tools and build new ones (email composition, document filling, payload generation, account integrations)
- Contribute to the underlying infrastructure that both the lending business and the AI agent business sit on top of
- Operate as a tech lead from day one: ramp fast, own delivery, work in a Slack-native, AI-tool-heavy development cycle
Must-Haves
- New grad to 5 years of engineering experience (hard cap at 5 years)
- Excellence signal: notable startup background, big tech background, or top university CS / technical degree
- Strong Python backend fundamentals: APIs, async, databases, cloud deployment
- AI-native daily usage of Claude Code, Codex, or comparable agentic coding tools, with strong opinions on
- how to make agent systems better
- Self-motivated tech lead profile: ramps fast, works with minimal scaffolding, comfortable owning ambiguous
- scope
Nice-to-Have
Full-stack experience with TypeScript on the frontend
Prior zero-to-one startup experience with a clear story and demonstrable users High-frequency trading or quantitative engineering background (matches current team profile) Excited about UX and product, not just systems
NB: No Visa sponsorship
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