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.