Founding Engineer, Wellington

The role

You will perform full-stack development and build core product features end-to-end. You will establish foundational architecture patterns and collaborate with founders to translate user needs into technical solutions.

What you will do

• Full-stack development
• Build and own core product features end-to-end
• Establish foundational patterns and technical decisions
• Act as codebase authority and shape engineering culture
• Work with founders to translate user needs into technical solutions
• Use AI tools daily for architecting, building, and debugging

Required qualifications

• Full-stack/backend coding excellence
• Deep mission commitment regarding financial advisory transformation
• Business acumen with product and growth orientation
• Continuous learning drive for 0-1 development cycles
• Customer obsession, impact focus, intellectual curiosity, execution speed
• High risk tolerance and comfort with ambiguity
• Collaborative long-term mindset
• Daily AI tool proficiency for architecting, building, debugging across stacks
• Prioritises in-person collaboration
• Able to travel internationally

Nice to have

• Engineering hiring, management, and development track record
• Startup experience navigating critical milestones toward product-market fit
• Security infrastructure and data privacy compliance implementation experience

About the company

Marloo is building the AI partner for financial advisers. They have onboarded more than 1,000 paying firms across eight countries and raised a $10m seed led by Blackbird Ventures.