Senior Software Engineer

Founding EngineerOnsite - Palo Alto, CABase $200-650k + EquityFutureTech Recruitment is partnered with a $20M seed-funded AI-FinTech startup backed by tier-1 institutional investors and some of the most sophisticated traders in global financial markets. The company is building orchestration infrastructure that turns natural language intent into settled financial action - across any asset class, in real time. Hundreds of millions of dollars already processed privately. Institutional interest from some of the largest names in finance.Four people in Palo Alto. This is one of the first three engineering hires - a founding team role in the truest sense.What You'll OwnShip product surface end-to-end - from the chat interface a user types their thesis into, to the agent loop that turns it into a tested strategy, to the rails that settle itRebuild the chat interface - move from one-shot workflow generation to a chat-first experience with artifact panesBuild the strategy execution layer - agents translate intent into proposed strategies, you build the infrastructure that takes those live across exchanges, prediction markets, and on-chain venuesOwn the integration of a new asset class (commodities, prediction markets, equities) into the natural language layer end-to-endHunt your own scope - identify what the product needs next and propose it. Direction, not a queueBring the best engineering culture you’ve been exposed to - the protocols, code review norms, the way you ship under pressure without breaking thingsRequirements5+ years as a backend-leaning engineer at high-pedigree, talent-dense startupsDemonstrated track record as a lead IC building products end-to-endTrack record running point on a 0-to-1 product surface at an early-stage startupBackground in trading, prediction markets, data-driven products, or paymentsStrong technical fundamentals in TypeScript and PythonBuilder at heart - public artefact trail essential (open source, side projects, things you built because you wanted them to exist)Tech StackTypeScript, Python, Agentic Systems, Real-Time Execution Infrastructure$20M seed, tier-1 backed, hundreds of millions already processed, institutional validation from the biggest names in finance. Genuinely hard engineering problems, no bureaucracy. If you want to own a product surface at the intersection of AI and financial markets from day one, click Apply Now!