Founding Engineer – Fintech

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🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Huzzle.com

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51 - 200 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.8M Pre Seed Round - Huzzle on 2024-04

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

Huzzle. com is an AI-native hiring platform that connects companies with pre-vetted, remote talent—especially sales and go-to-market roles—through a streamlined sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and payroll workflow. The platform uses AI-driven candidate search and automated interviews (with expert review) to surface high-quality candidates quickly, then handles contracts, onboarding, and cross-border payroll and compliance so employers can hire globally in days. It also offers a candidate-facing experience that matches applicants to remote roles after a single 20-minute interview and provides a curated talent marketplace.

📋 Description

• Architect and build core financial infrastructure, including accounts, balances, ledgers, transaction state machines, and money-movement systems • Build KYC/KYB, onboarding, compliance, permissions, limits, and approval workflows • Design integrations with banking partners, card issuers, payment rails, FX providers, and other financial infrastructure partners • Develop provider-independent architecture supporting multiple banking and financial providers without vendor lock-in • Build secure, reliable APIs and financial data models capable of handling reconciliation, event processing, retries, and exception handling • Own technical problems end-to-end, from architecture and database design through implementation and production deployment • Work directly with founders to translate product requirements and business constraints into scalable technical solutions • Help establish engineering standards, technology choices, and the platform’s long-term technical direction

🎯 Requirements

• 3–8+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend or full-stack fundamentals • Direct experience building financial infrastructure within a fintech, neobank, payments company, or similar financial technology environment • Experience with core banking, payments, ledgers, cards, FX, reconciliation, KYC/KYB, or money movement • Proven experience building production-grade APIs and distributed systems • Strong database architecture and data-modeling skills • Experience with asynchronous workflows, queues, events, retries, idempotency, and transaction processing • Strong engineering judgment and product instincts, particularly when balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and correctness • Comfortable operating in a highly ambiguous 0→1 environment and taking significant ownership without requiring extensive direction • Natural initiative, creativity, and problem-solving ability • Highly hands-on and excited to continue writing production code rather than moving into a primarily managerial role • Nice-to-haves include experience as an individual contributor, early engineer, founding engineer, or technical lead within a high-growth fintech • Nice-to-haves include background at listed fintech companies or similar • Nice-to-haves include deep understanding of financial ledgers, reconciliation, transaction processing, or money-movement architecture • Nice-to-haves include experience integrating multiple banking, payment, card, or financial infrastructure providers • Nice-to-haves include familiarity with KYC/KYB regulatory and compliance requirements • Nice-to-haves include experience building multi-currency, FX, card issuing, or cross-border payments products • Nice-to-haves include previous experience helping build a product or engineering function from an early stage

🏖️ Benefits

• Milestone-based compensation • Fully remote and flexible work environment • High-impact founding role with 0→1 ownership • Direct influence over architecture and technical direction • Opportunity to build on top of an already profitable platform • Modern tech stack and provider-agnostic architecture • Collaborative environment working directly with experienced founders