About Aequify (https://aequify.com)

Aequify helps expatriates manage cross-border money the simple way: connect bank/investment accounts across 30+ countries, see net worth and cashflow in one place, and helps expats manage their cross-border finances with ease.

We are pushing the boundaries of LLMs and AI Agents and looking for deeply technical, hardworking individuals.

The Role

We’re hiring a Lead Developer (Founding Engineer) to own our technical foundation and ship the next milestones of Aequify’s product. You’ll lead architecture and hands-on development, establish engineering practices, and help us scale.

You’ll thrive here if you enjoy building 0→1 products, care deeply about security/compliance, and like turning ambiguity into shipping code.

What you’ll do

· Own the architecture: Modular service boundaries, data models, and APIs that support account aggregation, enrichment, and tax workflows.

· Ship core features end-to-end: React/Next.js front-end + Node/TypeScript back-end, data ingestion, reconciliation, and reporting.

· Security & compliance by default: Secrets management, RBAC, audit trails, PII encryption, logging/monitoring, basic SOC 2/GDPR/PIPEDA readiness.

· Observability & ops: Set up CI/CD, infra as code, metrics/alerts, cost tracking, and SLOs.

· Data & intelligence: Instrument categorization, rules/heuristics, and agent-assisted workflows (LangGraph/LLM where it truly helps).

· Technical leadership: Code reviews, lightweight standards, mentoring contractors, and participating in early hiring.

· Work with the founder: Translate customer pain into a tight roadmap and pragmatic delivery plan.

Minimum qualifications

· 5+ years building and operating production web applications.

· Strong TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, and REST/GraphQL API design.

· Cloud (AWS preferred): VPC/IAM, Lambda/EC2/ECS, S3, CloudWatch; IaC (Terraform/CDK/pulumi).

· Datastores: MongoDB (or Postgres), indexing, migrations, and query performance.

· Security mindset: OAuth/OIDC, secrets management, encryption, least privilege, and data-privacy best practices.

· Strong event-based system design experience.

· Product sense: you can cut scope smartly, ship iteratively, and instrument what matters.

Nice to have

· Experience with fintech/payments/banking data, aggregator integrations

· ETL/streaming experience (webhooks, queues, retries, idempotency).

· LLM/agents experience (LangGraph/OpenAI tools) used pragmatically for data classification or advisor workflows.

· Prior startup/founding engineer experience; comfort with fractional contractors and growing a team.

· Familiarity with SOC 2, GDPR/PIPEDA, and secure SDLC practices (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning).

Compensation & work style

· Equity + stipend: Meaningful equity with a starting basic stipend; grows with traction/funding. Open to full-time or fractional → full-time.

· Remote-first but needs to be flexible to work across time zones.

· Velocity with care: We ship quickly while maintaining a strong security posture for financial data.

· Visa application support for strong performers after >1 year in the role.

Interview process

1. Intro (20–30 min): Mutual fit, product deep-dive.

2. Technical conversation (60 min): System design, coding exercise

3. Work sample Test (8-10 hrs)

4. Founder chat.

How to apply

Send the following details:

Resume (no cover letter required)

LinkedIn/GitHub (or portfolio)

Artifacts displaying prior system designs and two shipped products you’re proud of.