Founding Engineer
Cardinal Gray · cardinalgray.com
New YorkOn-siteEntry level
The job in short
Founding backend engineer building integrations and customer-facing automation for lending and vehicle title/DMV workflows.
TypeScriptNode.jsAWSB2BSaaSCompliance
Details
- Found
- 21 d ago · posted 2025-09-30
- Location as listed
- New York, New York, US
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
This is a full-time, on-site role in New York City for someone who can build product and drive outcomes with customers.
This is not a role for someone who wants clean abstractions, perfect APIs, or slow roadmaps. You will ship production fixes, deploy automations, talk to operators, and help close deals — often in the same week.
What you’ll do:
• Own integrations with lenders, vendors, and state-specific processes (often inconsistent and hostile to automation)
• Debug and harden systems that deal with messy inputs: OCR outputs, missing data, DMV rejection loops, inconsistent county requirements
• Work directly with customers: gather requirements, explain workflows, manage pilots, and turn adoption into expansion
• Support live operations when needed
• Help design the product by being close to the pain: rejections, backlog, chase cycles, etc.
You will be expected to:
• Write code that directly impacts revenue and customer retention
• Communicate confidently with collateral teams, ops teams, and decision-makers
• Be a “founder energy” operator: see problems, fix problems, close problems
You are a strong fit if you have:
• Strong computer science fundamentals and engineering judgment
• Real backend experience (TypeScript / Node preferred; AWS + cloud workflows a plus)
• High ownership
• Ability to communicate clearly with customers and translate pain into product
• Entrepreneurial temperament: you like chaotic problems and moving fast
Bonus (but not required):
• Experience in fintech, lending, B2B SaaS, or compliance-heavy workflows
• Sales instinct: you can tell what a customer actually needs vs. what they’re asking for
• Experience working with large enterprise clients (pilots, rollouts, expansions)
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