Finic helps fintechs and banks automate the detection and investigation of financial crimes.

Finic is looking for a founding engineer to help us tackle a multi-deca-billion industry - financial crime detection. This role is closer to a forward deployed engineer than full stack engineer, but with plenty of flexibility in scope depending on the candidates skills, preferences, and the company’s evolving needs.

About Finic

• Finic detects and investigates financial crimes using AI. Our customers are banks, fintechs and marketplaces in the US.
• $X,000,000 in enterprise pilots either ongoing or starting soon
• 2 cofounders, both ex-Robinhood. CEO was founding PM of Robinhood's internal fraud platform
• Zero employees
• $1.2M raised

Responsibilities

• Work closely with enterprise customers to understand their pain points
• Design and implement solutions using gen AI, Python, Typescript, and AWS
• Keep customer engagements on track from POC to pilot to production
• Some domestic travel may be required

Perks

• Option for cash heavy or equity heavy compensation
• A mission you can feel good about - our work directly protects everyday Americans from getting scammed and defrauded

The ideal candidate:

• Has experience working as a forward deployed engineer at another enterprise AI company (Palantir, Scale, startups, etc)
• OR has experience as a founder or employee #1-10
• Is comfortable shipping code on a regular basis but also loves talking to customers
• Understands how to leverage AI effectively, both as a tool and as part of a product
• Must be based in the SF bay area or NYC or willing to relocate

We exclusively use Typescript (React) and Python (API server + most of the backend). We primarily deploy on-prem with customers and so use a lot of AWS and Azure.