Founding AI + Backend Engineer

Transform how SMEs manage their finances by developing the AI-powered product
 

We are democratizing CFO-level financial expertise for a 600k UAE SMEs market. By combining AI automation with seasoned finance professionals, we deliver enterprise-quality bookkeeping, accounting, and tax services at SME prices.

This is not a prototype:

• our own accountants already work on the product every day,
• In the first months, we’ve already onboarded paying clients,
• and we’re not just shipping software – we’re also building our own accounting agency on top of it.

You’ll be joining very early and will have a real say in what the product and platform become.
 

The role

We’re looking for a Founding AI + Backend Engineer: someone who enjoys LLMs/ML and document intelligence and is happy to roll up their sleeves and build solid backend systems (APIs, integrations, infra).

You’ll work directly with the CTO and Chief of AI and ship things end-to-end: from quick experiments to production features running on real client data.
 

What you’ll work on

You definitely won’t do all of this on day one, but these are the kinds of problems on our roadmap:

1. AI & Document Processing

2. External Integrations & Billing

3. Automations & RPA

4. Performance, Reliability & Platform

5. Analytics & BI
 

Our stack (so far)

• Backend: Java (Spring Boot), Python.
• Frontend: Vue.
• Data: Postgres, ClickHouse, OpenSearch.
• Infra: AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, SES, Cognito, CloudFront, Textract, etc.), Nginx, Docker.
• Observability: Prometheus + Grafana, Sentry, log aggregation.
• Process: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Playwright/JUnit, docs-first “vibe-coding”.

You don’t have to know every tool, but you should be comfortable learning new ones quickly.

You might be a fit if

• You’ve built and operated backend systems in production (APIs, jobs, integrations) in Python and/or Java.
• You have hands-on experience with LLMs/ML (RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, model evaluation, or similar) and want your models actually to run in prod, not just in notebooks.
• You’re comfortable working with cloud infra (ideally AWS), relational DBs (Postgres), and queues.
• You like owning problems end-to-end: from understanding the accountant’s workflow → to data modeling → to code → to metrics.
• You enjoy early-stage environments: high autonomy, low bureaucracy, direct feedback from real users.

Nice to have:

• Experience with any of: Stripe, Zoho, RPA (Playwright/Selenium), ClickHouse, document AI/OCR, or fintech/accounting.
• Prior startup/founding engineer experience.
• Vibe-coding, spec-driven development experience.

What we offer

• A founding-team seat with real product and technical influence.
• Opportunity to work on a mix of AI + hardcore backend + real business workflows.
• A system where software + our own agency evolve together — you see impact on real accountants and real clients, not abstract users.