Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco (in-office) | $130,000 - $180,000 + 0.6% - 0.7% equity | Visa sponsorship available | Seed-stage
Our client is a Seed/Series A fintech-for-education startup building the financial rails for $1.5T of US education funds. Their consumer card, powered by an AI eligibility model, gives parents instant access to education dollars while giving states automated AI fraud detection. Live in Arizona and nearly doubling monthly, expanding into Florida and federal programs, having launched their card program in just 74 days. They've raised $16M from top-tier VCs and angels.
The team is the standout selling point: an unusual mix of ex-founders and operators who've either run a school or run risk at a major fintech, including a founding engineer from MILA, a Head of Risk who led risk at Mercury, Stripe and Circle, payments engineers from Microsoft and Goldman, and a GTM lead who co-founded a leading fintech superapp. The company is in-person in San Francisco, flat, super-IC, and genuinely mission-driven.
The Role
This Full Stack Engineer will own the parent-facing experience end to end: receipts, claims, reimbursements and statements, built for clarity and trust so a parent never wonders whether a reimbursement will go through. Most customers are non-technical homeschool parents, so the mandate is intuitive UX, not slick complexity. Success here is measured by parent outcomes, not time spent in the app. This is a builder role, not a product management role - the founders want an engineer whose spike is product, UX and database sense.
What You'll Own
- Parent-facing mobile and web experiences end to end, including receipts, claims, reimbursements and statements
- Intuitive, trust-first UX design for a non-technical user base
- Data modeling and app performance, including latency and API-call patterns, as the user base scales
- Fast, constant product iteration including A/B testing and shipping to production
What We're Looking For
- Strong full-stack engineer with a spike in databases and data modeling
- Genuine eye for design, product and UX - not a PM in disguise
- History of shipping to production constantly, including personal side projects
- Obsessive attention to detail and user psychology
- High agency, autonomous, and comfortable in a flat, super-IC environment
- Willingness to travel to meet users directly, including on-site visits
- 0-5 years experience; university not required if there's an equivalent high-signal track record, such as a founded-and-shipped project, a competitive fellowship, or a competition win
If you are open to learning more please apply below and I will be in contact to discuss the role further.