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.