# Founding Engineer - Remote)

Founding Engineer - Remote (Ab-Intel) Salary Range: 180k to $240k We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 2-7 years of experience to help build AI agents that automate tax preparation for the largest accounting firms in the US. Abacus is profitable, has passed seven figures in revenue in under a year, and is live in 11 of the top 100 firms. We want a high-bar generalist who makes sharp backend decisions and wants to help scale a product that customers already pay for. Responsibilities Build the core tax-automation platform as a generalist: mostly backend, with some frontend Help ship the next major version of the product, a big relaunch planned for early next year Make backend architecture decisions on your own, working closely with the CTO and Head of Engineering Build our LLM and OCR agent pipelines and turn what firms tell us into product Work on new products in tax and in other accounting workflows, such as audit Key Requirements Strong Python skills; TypeScript is a strong plus Hands-on experience making backend architecture decisions Experience at a venture-backed, fast-growing startup (Seed through Series B) is strongly preferred; long tenures at big tech or slow enterpr

- **Id**: 3794573
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sivad-consulting-founding-engineer-remote-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T08:36:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:01:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1993
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing

## Company

- **Id**: 3832647
- **Name**: SIVAD Consulting
- **Domain**: sivadconsulting.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sivad-consulting>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OCR** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T08:36:48Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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