Senior Software Engineer

Founding Engineer

Onsite - Palo Alto, CA

Base $350-650k + Equity

FutureTech 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 Own

• Ship 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 it
• Rebuild the chat interface - move from one-shot workflow generation to a chat-first experience with artifact panes
• Build 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 venues
• Own the integration of a new asset class (commodities, prediction markets, equities) into the natural language layer end-to-end
• Hunt your own scope - identify what the product needs next and propose it. Direction, not a queue
• Bring the best engineering culture you’ve been exposed to - the protocols, code review norms, the way you ship under pressure without breaking things

Requirements

• 5+ years as a backend-leaning engineer at high-pedigree, talent-dense startups
• Demonstrated track record as a lead IC building products end-to-end
• Track record running point on a 0-to-1 product surface at an early-stage startup
• Background in trading, prediction markets, data-driven products, or payments
• Strong technical fundamentals in TypeScript and Python
• Builder at heart - public artefact trail essential (open source, side projects, things you built because you wanted them to exist)

Tech Stack

TypeScript, 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!