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The current banking system is broken, often shutting out the world’s youngest and fastest-growing consumer classes-we’re here to fix it.\nOur team is uniquely positioned to solve this. We are Stanford engineers and former YC founders who have spent our careers at the intersection of banking and hyper-growth startups like Square, Facebook, and Box. We’ve been here before, having previously built and exited Symple (YC W'17), a fast-growing B2B payments company.\nWe are backed by world-class investors, including Accel, Valar, Immad Akhund (Mercury), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), and Kunal Shah (Cred).\nThe Role\nWe're hiring an engineer to own the infrastructure layer behind our production AI agents.\nThis is not a prompt engineering role. It's not a UI role. 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