# Head of Engineering at Elayne

- Company: Elayne (YC S24)
- What the company does: Estate settlement, from verified discovery to distribution. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.elayne.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $320K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elayne/jobs/F78mhb0-head-of-engineering
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elayne-head-of-engineering/

## 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

Tags: Engineering