Founding Product Engineer

Founding Product Engineer

Plutus is a fast growing company on a mission to democratize access to investing. We're an SEC-registered investment advisor giving everyday investors the kind of portfolio strategy and automated execution that used to be reserved for institutions and the ultra-wealthy. We launched in January, our user base is growing rapidly, and we're now looking for a Founding Product Engineer to help take us from v1 to a billion under management by end of year.

This is not a typical product or eng role — it's the opportunity to shape both the strategy and the creation of the product.

Responsibilities

• Own product like a founder - detect what customers actually need, figure out how to grow and keep retention above 98%, and go build it. No handoffs, no waiting on someone else's roadmap.
• Turn data into product - there's an enormous amount of signal sitting in our usage and portfolio data that we haven't surfaced yet. You'll build the pipelines and partner with ML to turn that into insight customers can act on.
• Be an engineer first, with product sense - you know what's buildable and what isn't, so your product instincts are grounded in reality, not "I'd love a car that goes faster than a Lambo" wishful thinking.
• Live in the customer's shoes - regardless of your experience level, the job is finding the gap between what we say the product does and what it actually does, then closing it.
• Behave like an owner - the team is small, the stakes are real, and people are here committed to shipping quickly and at the highest quality.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals (TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres, and comfort with cloud infra)
• Real experience building and shipping data pipelines, with applied ML/data science chops
• A track record of owning a product outcome end-to-end, not just shipping tickets
• Extreme ownership and genuine comfort operating in ambiguity at an early-stage startup
• Deep curiosity about the customer - you notice when something doesn't quite work, and you can't help but go fix it
• Financial motivation is a feature, not a bug, here - but you need to actually believe in the mission, not just be looking for a paycheck