About the Role

You'll be one of the first engineers building Augustus's US operations from the ground up, joining a small, elite team in our NYC office. You'll own core banking systems end-to-end, working on the Programmable Bank—a bank built for digital assets and AI that combines a real national bank charter with Marble, our proprietary core banking system. This is a career-defining opportunity to build banking infrastructure that handles real money at scale.

What You'll Do

• Ship meaningful code in your first weeks while ramping on the codebase, domain, and product.
• Own major projects end-to-end as an individual contributor, driving them from conception to production.
• Translate complex financial and banking problems into clean, reliable code that runs at scale.
• Make technical decisions on system design, data modeling, and architectural tradeoffs from day one.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and clients to shape how core banking systems evolve.
• Build systems that automate problems rather than scaling effort, prioritizing simplicity over cleverness.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.
• 1+ years working in early-stage or small startup environments.
• Code that is clean, correct, and easy to delete; former teammates would rank you in the top 5% of engineers they've worked with.
• Ability to ship and iterate rather than waiting for perfection; you merge PRs today, not tomorrow.
• Relentless ownership mentality—you can't leave something broken and don't need external accountability to care about quality.
• Comfort operating in genuinely new territory without a playbook; you move before being asked.
• Passion for building core banking systems and financial infrastructure, not another CRUD app.
• Willingness to be based in New York or relocate.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary & Equity: $200,000–$400,000 annual base salary plus equity.

Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; relocation and visa support; latest Apple gear; lunch and gym benefits; four on- and offsites annually; annual development budget; beautiful office in Manhattan.

Location

On-site in New York, NY. Relocation support provided.