Role Description
Our client is hiring an early product engineer to own the product surfaces where people experience AI-powered financial planning. This is a
frontend-focused
role, but not a narrow frontend role.
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Lead the web and mobile experience across React, React Native, and Expo.
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Shape new AI-native interaction patterns for financial planning.
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Flex into backend, infrastructure, agents, data flows, and product strategy whenever that is the shortest path to shipping something excellent.
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Work directly with the Head of Engineering as one of the first engineering hires.
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Be a builder with strong product taste, high agency, and a demonstrable track record of using AI and agentic engineering tools to ship better software faster.
What You’ll Do (The Day-to-Day)
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Own major parts of the product experience across web, iOS, and Android.
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Design and build intuitive conversational, interactive interfaces for financial and life planning that feel like a partner, not a web form.
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Turn ambiguous product ideas into polished, production-ready experiences with strong UX, performance, accessibility, reliability, and observability.
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Build in TypeScript across the stack when needed, including frontend, API contracts, data fetching, auth flows, background jobs, and integrations.
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Help define our frontend architecture, component system, design patterns, mobile/web code-sharing strategy, and product engineering standards.
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Use agentic software engineering tools and workflows as real leverage, not as demos: prototyping, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, code review, documentation, and operational automation.
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Contribute to the product’s AI layer, including multi-model orchestration, LLM UX, evaluation loops, tool use, reliability, latency, cost, and failure-mode handling.
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Work closely with founders, customers, and early users. Ship quickly, watch what happens, and iterate.
Qualifications
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You have built and shipped high-quality product experiences that real users depend on.
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You are excellent with React, TypeScript, modern frontend architecture, state/data management, and production UI performance.
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You have strong product and design judgment.
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You care about the difference between a screen that technically works and an experience that feels obvious, trustworthy, and fast.
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You are genuinely AI-native in how you build.
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You have a portfolio, shipped product, open-source work, technical write-up, or demo showing how you use AI/agentic systems to create meaningful leverage.
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You are comfortable moving beyond the frontend when needed: APIs, databases, auth, observability, infra, deployment, security, and product analytics do not scare you.
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You can operate in a seed-stage environment where requirements are incomplete, priorities change, and ownership is broad.
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You communicate clearly, write things down, make good tradeoffs, and prefer shipping small, high-quality increments over disappearing into large speculative rewrites.
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You work well in a remote, distributed environment: proactive communication, strong ownership, written clarity, and good judgment around when to sync vs. work async.
Nice to have
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Experience with React Native, Expo, TanStack Query/Router, Tailwind, Uniwind, HeroUI, Cloudflare, PostgreSQL, PlanetScale, Terraform/OpenTofu, or AI observability/evaluation tooling.
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Experience building financial, data-heavy, regulated, privacy-sensitive, or consumer trust-heavy products.
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Experience with LLM-powered UX, streaming interfaces, agent orchestration, tool-calling, evals, retrieval, structured outputs, or multi-model systems.
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Experience as a founder, founding engineer, product engineer, design engineer, or high-agency early startup builder.
Our stack
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TypeScript across frontend and backend.
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React; React Native and Expo.
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TanStack Query, Router, and related tooling.
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Tailwind, Uniwind, and HeroUI.
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PlanetScale Postgres.
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Deep Cloudflare integration across application, hosting, performance, and security.
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Terraform/OpenTofu.
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Multi-model agentic orchestration across Anthropic, OpenAI, and other model providers.
How we work
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We are a fully remote, distributed team.
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Periodic in-person get-togethers will be integral to our operating cadence.
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We prioritize outcomes & output over set schedules.
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We value clear writing, high ownership, fast iteration, direct communication, and thoughtful async collaboration.
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As an early engineer, you should expect broad ownership, frequent context shifts, and a high degree of autonomy.
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You will help shape not just the product, but also the engineering culture, technical standards, and operating cadence of the company.
Compensation
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Base salary: $150,000–$215,000, plus meaningful early-stage option equity.
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Final compensation will depend on level, experience, location, and scope of responsibility.
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This role is open to candidates based in the United States.
