# Founding Engineer - Company: [Kinetic]() - Location: New York - Team: PayMe - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $160K – $200K - Posted: April 7, 2026 ## Job description ## 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 real urgency * You will work on a small team where good ideas ship fast ## What you own * The highest-leverage product and engineering work across PayMe * Turning fuzzy problems into concrete plans, technical choices, and shipped product * Working shoulder-to-shoulder with product, growth, and design * Using AI heavily, because almost all code here is expected to be written with AI assistance * Helping set the engineering tone as one of the earliest dedicated engineers on PayMe ## What success looks like * Important product work ships fast and actually changes outcomes * Engineering is no longer a bottleneck on PayMe’s highest-leverage work * The team can hand you vague goals and trust you to make strong product and technical decisions * You raise the bar on speed, ownership, and leverage ## What you're *not* here to do * Be a narrow specialist who avoids product work * Wait for a perfect PRD before moving * Optimize for process over output * Act like a manager before proving you can build ## Our process * 15 min screen with Kinetic's Lead Engineer * Half-day async paid project * Deep dive with PayMe's General Manager * Team conversations * Final in-office day Target turnaround ~2 weeks from start to finish. ## Apply [Apply on Kinetic]() Canonical job page: