Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Porter is building an AI-native financial system that combines financial software, AI employees, and human expertise for growing companies. The Founding Product Engineer will own customer problems end to end, designing and building across frontend, backend, AI, data, and integrations while helping establish the company’s engineering culture and product standards.
Responsibilities
- Talk directly with founders, operators, and finance teams
- Decide what the right product should be
- Design the user experience and technical approach
- Build across frontend, backend, AI, data, and integrations
- Ship your work to production
- Observe how customers use it and improve it based on what you learn
- Help establish Porter’s engineering culture, architecture, and product standards
- AI finance agents that perform work previously handled by accountants and operations teams
- Reliable tools that let AI understand and act on complete financial data
- Human approval systems for consequential AI actions
- Financial workflows for invoicing, collections, bills, payments, payroll, reporting, and month-end close
- Integrations with banking, accounting, payroll, payment, and communication platforms
- Interfaces that make complex financial information understandable to business owners
- Infrastructure for permissions, audit trails, reconciliation, observability, and AI evaluation
- New ways for customers to use Porter through the web application, Slack, email, Claude, and MCP
Skills
- Experience: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Open to exceptional remote candidates based in the United States
- Have at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence that you can build and ship production software
- Have shipped real products rather than only completing assigned tickets
- Can work across the frontend and backend
- Are comfortable moving between product thinking and technical implementation
- Care about the details users experience, not only whether the code works
- Know when to move quickly and when correctness requires slowing down
- Enjoy learning complicated and unfamiliar domains
- Communicate clearly and challenge ideas constructively
- Take responsibility for outcomes after deployment
- Want your judgment to shape the product and company
- Are excited to work directly with customers and founders
- You do not need an accounting background. You do need the curiosity and discipline to learn how financial systems work
- Location: New York City, NY. Hybrid preferred
- Experience building AI agents or production LLM applications
- Experience with fintech, accounting, payments, banking, or financial data
- Experience owning a product area at an early-stage startup
- Experience designing APIs, integrations, or distributed workflows
- Strong product-design instincts
- Experience building systems where security, auditability, and correctness matter
Benefits
- Meaningful early-stage equity
- Hybrid work preferred in New York City, with openness to exceptional remote candidates based in the United States
- Massive ownership: Help establish the product, architecture, and engineering culture while the team is still small.
- Exceptional learning: Work across AI, fintech, accounting, integrations, product design, and company building.
- Founder access: Work directly with founders who bring deep experience in startup operations, financial technology, AI, data systems, and product development.
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