Founding Engineer ($150k-$250k + Equity) at Toolkit

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Job Title: Founding Engineer

Salary: $150k–$250k + Equity

Company Description: Toolkit - Seed stage AI-native IDE for finance teams backed by top Silicon Valley VCs

Job Description:

As employee #7, you will build the world's first agent orchestration platform specifically for finance. You'll design sophisticated systems that allow AI agents to navigate GAAP rules and complex multi-step workflows. This role is perfect for engineers who want to 10x their velocity using AI while maintaining elite engineering fundamentals.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

* Massive ownership as the 4th engineer on a 6-person founding team, directly influencing the product's architectural direction and technical culture.

* High-velocity environment with $3.4M in Seed funding from premier Silicon Valley VCs and a product already in private alpha with top-tier CFOs.

* Unique opportunity to define ""AI-native engineering"" by building internal systems that leverage coding agents to ship mission-critical financial infrastructure at frontier speeds.

What you will do:

* Architect agent orchestration infrastructure that maintains deep context and institutional knowledge across complex, multi-step financial workflows.

* Build a high-performance reconciliation engine capable of processing millions of rows and ingesting real-time data from ERP, CRM, and HRIS systems.

* Ship weekly customer-facing features based on direct feedback from CFOs, iterating rapidly on the balance between human direction and AI execution.

The ideal candidate:

* Proven experience designing scalable system abstractions and building robust scaffolds that ensure high-quality code outputs at scale.

* Passion for AI-frontier development and a desire to master the use of coding agents to radically accelerate engineering cycles without sacrificing quality.

* Strong product intuition with the ability to break down complex financial problems into parallelizable work streams and autonomous agent tasks.

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Step 5. If Jill thinks you're a great fit and her client wants to meet you, they will make the introduction.

Step 6. If not, Jack will find you excellent alternatives. All for free.

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