Founding Engineer (multiple positions)

Plutus · Kirkland, United States

Come join our fast growing company on a mission to democratize access to investing. We are looking for full-stack engineers. We work in‑person most days out of our office in Kirkland, WA.

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Love the craft – You take pride in writing clean, maintainable code. You care about the details. Building software well matters to you.
• Extreme ownership – we don't want to sell you on a big‑tech type job. This is for you if you almost want to startup your own thing but are not there yet.
• Have battle scars – 8+ years of experience including real on‑call rotations and service maintenance. You've been paged at 3am and know what it takes to keep systems running.
• Be deeply curious – You dive deep into unknowns. When you don't know something, you figure it out. You want to understand how things work, not just make them work.
• Use AI effectively, but own the fundamentals – You leverage AI tools to move faster and be more productive, but you have deep knowledge of the entire stack. You can explain what the code does, debug when things break, and make architectural decisions without relying on AI to tell you what's right.

You will need some experience having built and operated hardened infra at scale. We think you’ll learn on the job but need engineers who can operate with an elevated baseline.

• fair compensation and equity
• environment to do your best work

Bonus: You won’t need to go to 5 random meetings to convince people that we need logs.

Languages & Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, React

Cache: Redis

Infrastructure: Terraform, Docker

If you are based in the Puget Sound we would love to chat!

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Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development