Estate settlement, from verified discovery to distribution. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to own the technical foundation of Elayne as we scale from thousands of families to the infrastructure behind how wealth moves between generations. This is a builder role with company-level technical ownership. You’ll inherit real systems and real constraints, decide what should evolve or be rebuilt, personally ship our hardest systems, and set the engineering standard as we scale.
What they're looking for
- You’re a builder first . Expect the large majority of your time, for at least the first 18 months, to be spent designing systems and shipping code
- You’ve owned production systems involving sensitive or regulated data , ideally fintech, identity, health, credentialing, or another correctness-critical environment
- You’re exceptional at backend architecture, relational data modeling, APIs, and distributed systems
- You’ve integrated with difficult third-party systems and know authentication, retries, reconciliation, and ugly edge cases are the real work
- You’ve been accountable for consequential technical decisions and can explain what you got right and what you got wrong
- You have strong opinions without needing to win the argument
More about this role
We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to own the technical foundation of Elayne as we scale from thousands of families to the infrastructure behind how wealth moves between generations.
This is a builder role with company-level technical ownership. You’ll inherit real systems and real constraints, decide what should evolve or be rebuilt, personally ship our hardest systems, and set the engineering standard as we scale.
The hard part of estate settlement isn’t model intelligence. It’s authorization, credentialed access, regulation, and complex logic . Elayne is one of a very small handful of companies ever granted a direct integration with the IRS. Access like that takes years to earn, can’t be replicated by a smarter model, and is the moat you’ll be building on and extending.
You’ll work directly with the CEO and have enormous influence over what Elayne becomes.
If you want to inherit a large team and manage it, this isn’t the role. If you want to build the technical spine of a category-defining company, we’d love to talk.
The estate record: the source of truth connecting people, assets, documents, authority, and actions across an estate
Authorization: permissioning that...
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