About the role
We are looking for a founding engineer, an extremely leveraged role. You’ll work directly with founders to build a highly integrated back-office product spanning state compliance, sales tax, bookkeeping and corporate income taxes.
What will you need to bring
- 3+ years of professional experience as a full-stack software engineer with a proven track record of execution. You've built outstanding products and collaborated closely within engineering teams.
- High ownership and agency. We’re a lean startup, and you'll be expected to care deeply about the product and fully drive significant parts of the roadmap.
Nice to have:
- Fintech experience
- Practical experience with applied AI (e.g., working with LLMs and agentic workflows)
- Familiarity with our technology stack: TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL
Why you should join
- Ambitious long term vision to bring intelligence into finance and accounting fields, huge market of millions of companies
- Technically challenging, novel AI application to accounting and finance
- If you want to start a startup in the future, this is a great opportunity to see what goes in early stage product and team building
About Afternoon.co
Afternoon.co empowers founders to make better business decisions with real time financial metrics. We pair managed AI bookkeeping and tax services, to reduce administrative burden on founders.
Accountants struggle serving 4 million+ of ecommerce brands & startups in the US, because of complexity in sales tax, multiple sales channels and inventory management. We automate a large portion of bookkeeping by integrating with their sales and inventory systems, so founders can spend less time doing admin work.
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Job details
Salary
$110,000 - $180,000
Equity
0.5% - 5%
Location
New York, NY
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$2M
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.