Founding Engineer

Finta
San Francisco
Full timeUSD 150,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Entrepreneurship & Venture BuildingExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Async collaboration","Ownership","Problem-solving","Pragmatism","Attention to detail"]

Build secure, fast, scalable full-stack production features end-to-end, collaborating closely with the CEO and designer from backend through frontend. Work with a modern Ruby on Rails + React stack to improve banking and accounting integrations, ensuring rigorous reliability and data quality. Continuously enhance testing, observability, security, and deployments on Render, while contributing to an async, ownership-driven environment.

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Finta
Finta
1 year ago

Founding Engineer

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Job Summary

Build secure, fast, scalable full-stack production features end-to-end, collaborating closely with the CEO and designer from backend through frontend. Work with a modern Ruby on Rails + React stack to improve banking and accounting integrations, ensuring rigorous reliability and data quality. Continuously enhance testing, observability, security, and deployments on Render, while contributing to an async, ownership-driven environment.
Location: San Francisco
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Entrepreneurship & Venture Building
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Ship secure, fast, and scalable production code across the stack
  • •Collaborate with the CEO and designer to deliver complete product features backend to frontend
  • •Build and maintain banking and accounting integrations with rigorous data quality and reliability
  • •Improve testing, observability, security, and deployments on Render
  • •Work asynchronously with minimal meetings and manage time to ship great work

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionMeal AllowanceGym MembershipLearning BudgetRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years working with server-side rendered Rails apps in production
  • •Experience shipping production code using modern AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex)
  • •Ability to thrive in async, ownership-driven environments
  • •Preference for simple, pragmatic solutions over complex abstractions
  • •Pride in solving hard problems and delivering polished end-to-end features
Experience:4+ years
Skills:Async collaborationOwnershipProblem-solvingPragmatismAttention to detail
Tech Stack:RubyRuby on RailsReactStimulusTailwindTurboViewComponentsPostgresPostgreSQLRedisSidekiqRenderGitHubSlackNotionLinearCursorClaude CodeCodex

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Finta
Finta builds financial operations tools for startups, offering automated budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial workflows that integrate with accounting systems to streamline FP&A and investor reporting for growing companies.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
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