Founding AI CFO Engineer: Tech Lead (Backend)

Product Pulse

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Product Pulse is hiring a Founding Engineer to own the AI CFO agent workstream, with roughly 75% backend AI focus and 25% lending infra. You’ll lead delivery from day one, shipping end-to-end capabilities in a Slack-native, AI-tool-heavy development cycle.

The role targets new grads through 5 years of experience, requires strong Python backend skills and fluency with AI tooling, and favors zero-to-one startup builders in New York.

Qualifications

  • 0–5 years of engineering experience (new grad to 5 years)
  • Strong Python backend fundamentals: APIs, async, databases, cloud deployment
  • AI-native daily usage of Claude Code, Codex, or comparable tools
  • Top university CS/technical degree or notable startup/big tech background

Responsibilities

  • Build and extend the AI CFO agent’s tool surface to enable tasks that used to take a CFO/CEO an hour or more
  • Improve agent trajectory quality and breadth of tools to reliably ship end-to-end outcomes
  • Compose existing tools and build new ones (email composition, document filling, payload generation, integrations)
  • Contribute to the underlying infrastructure supporting both lending and AI agent surfaces
  • Operate as a tech lead from day one with fast ramp, ownership of delivery, and a Slack-native development flow

Skills

Python backend
APIs
Async
Databases
Cloud deployment
Tech lead

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code
Codex

Job description

Product Pulse is hiring a Founding Engineer to own the AI CFO agent workstream, with roughly 75% backend AI focus and 25% lending infra. You’ll lead delivery from day one, shipping end-to-end capabilities in a Slack-native, AI-tool-heavy development cycle.

The role targets new grads through 5 years of experience, requires strong Python backend skills and fluency with AI tooling, and favors zero-to-one startup builders in New York.

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