Founding Engineer

Maestro

• $150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience in software engineering roles
  • Strong command of full-stack development
  • Proficient in Python, TypeScript, and React
  • Experience with AI and data-intensive systems is a plus
  • Effective communicator with team collaboration skills
  • Ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain key product features from the ground up
  • Develop AI systems tailored for high-stakes workflows
  • Design robust infrastructure and integrate with external systems
  • Engage directly with customers to refine product offerings
  • Establish technical standards and nurture engineering culture

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with founders and stakeholders
  • Broad ownership of projects and impact on product direction
  • Collaborative environment focused on innovation
  • Chance to shape company’s engineering culture from the start
  • In-person work environment for team cohesion
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for a founding engineer to help build our product, technical foundation, and engineering culture.

You'll work directly with the founders and customers to turn ambiguous, high-value problems into production software. You'll have broad ownership over what we build, how we build it, and how quickly it reaches customers.

You'll:
  • Build and own major product surfaces from first principles.
  • Develop AI systems for complex, high-stakes workflows.
  • Design reliable infrastructure and external integrations.
  • Work directly with customers to understand their operations and iterate quickly.
  • Help establish our technical standards and engineering culture.


What We're Looking For

You:
  • Care deeply about solving customer problems.
  • Move quickly without compromising engineering judgment.
  • Are comfortable working across the stack.
  • Communicate clearly and thrive with substantial ownership.
  • Use AI coding agents fluently to multiply your output.
  • Live in San Francisco and are available to work in person with the team 5 days a week.

Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, applied AI, or data-intensive systems is helpful, but the ability to learn and execute matters more. You don't need prior experience in lending or commercial real estate.

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