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.