# Founding Engineer

What is PayMe PayMe helps everyday people find and claim money they are already owed, from class action settlements, mass arbitrations, unclaimed funds, and more. It is a fast-growing consumer fintech product where product quality, speed, trust, and execution all matter at once. What we need PayMe needs a founding engineer who can take vague goals, figure out what matters, and implement basically anything needed to move the business forward. This is a true full-stack builder role. We want someone with strong product judgment who can turn ambiguity into shipped product. Who you are Agentic engineer, meaning AI writes most code and you are genuinely more powerful because of it Consumer product or fintech instincts are a plus Fast-paced, high-agency experience, often in seed or series A environments Comfortable shipping without a fully written PRD Clear product taste and evidence of shipped work Strong individual contributor, not an engineering manager profile Why it's exciting You will join a very small engineering team and help shape its next chapter You will own meaningful product and engineering decisions early You will work on a real consumer product with real scale and r

- **Id**: 82657
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kinetic-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-07T23:38:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:29:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 215
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2394
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 33701
- **Name**: Kinetic
- **Domain**: kinetic.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kinetic>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 215

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-04-07T23:38:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.134
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 215
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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