Founding Engineer (CTO for the right person) - Quin
Location: REMOTE (US) | Preference for Bay Area (tech), Chicago (consumer), or NYC (finance) Type: Full-time Source: Hacker News Website: https://iamquin.ai
About Quin
Quin is an agentic platform designed to solve personal finance for individuals. We are a consumer-focused company. The founder has 13 years of experience in private banking and has been developing Quin for 15 months, having built six prototypes and solidified the Go-To-Market strategy. We currently have a prototype with active testers.
The Role
You will be the first engineering hire. This role is about shipping the workflows that will become the product users trust and building the data layer that will support an agent in the future.
You will own backend architecture decisions from day one. Our current stack includes:
- Contract-first development (TypeScript contracts repo as source of truth)
- FastAPI
- Supabase/Postgres
- Groq for LLM inference
The stack is clean and the codebase is small. For the right person, this is an opportunity to take a CTO/co-founder role and define the full technical path.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong preference for Python / FastAPI.
- Strong data modeling instincts (experience designing schemas that had to scale).
- Experience with multi-tenant data architectures.
- Comfort operating without process.
- Comfort and experience using AI tools and incorporating new ideas quickly.
- Finance domain familiarity is a plus, but not a requirement.
Compensation
- Salary (post-raise) and meaningful equity.
- The founder is open to part-time arrangements in the interim if required.
How to Apply
Email quin@iamquin.ai with:
- The primary reason this role interests you.
- The top two reasons why you should be considered.
Note: Please do not worry about sending a resume at this stage.