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.