Founding Engineer - Product & Infrastructure
About the role
Build the system that decides how people pay.
Wallets today store cards. Uno decides which one to use. Uno understands the merchant, purchase context, rewards, offers, and each user's goals, then chooses the best way to pay in real time. We are starting with an intelligent wallet for iPhone and building the payment intelligence layer behind it.
The opportunity
We are looking for an exceptional early engineer to work directly with the founders and become a core technical leader at Uno. You will help decide what matters, ship quickly, and own whether it works. We expect this person to grow quickly into broader technical leadership; a promotion within roughly six months is likely, depending on impact.
What you will build
- The iPhone app and core payment experience
- Merchant prediction engines and category prediction
- Backend, data infrastructure, and new products from prototype through production
The work spans product and infrastructure. You do not need a particular technical specialization.
What we care about
- Exceptional technical ability
- High ownership
- Strong product judgment
- Comfort solving ambiguous, difficult problems
Experience at strong engineering companies such as Google, Stripe, Apple, or Robinhood; leading top 0.1% AI companies or startups; or top 1% technical universities such as Stanford, MIT, or Harvard can be positive signals. These are examples, not requirements or filters. We do not require startup experience, fintech or payments experience, or customer-facing experience.
The team
You will work directly with Saket Joshi, a former xAI Member of Technical Staff who built recommendation systems at scale, and Mordi Shadpour, a former Bloomberg Terminal expert. You will help shape Uno's product, architecture, engineering culture, and future team.
Location and compensation
The SF Bay Area is preferred, but exceptional candidates elsewhere can be considered. The salary range is $120,000 to $195,000, with 0.5% to 2.5% equity. Compensation is flexible for an exceptional candidate.
About Uno Wallet
Uno Wallet is a consumer fintech startup building an iPhone wallet app that automatically selects the highest-reward credit card from a user's existing cards at the point of payment. The company, legally named Uno Technologies, Inc., is backed by Y Combinator and is currently operating in a private beta stage. It is based in San Francisco and was founded by two people who met at a Harvard startup mixer.
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Job details
Salary
$120,000 - $195,000
Equity
0.5% - 2.5%
Location
San Francisco, Palo Alto
Funding
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.