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Product Engineer, Karat Platform

Karat Financial · Los Angeles, CA, US · On-site

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About Karat Financial

Better financial services for creators. Backed by Y Combinator and USV.

About the role

We’re looking for a Product Engineer to help us build the smallest, smartest back office in fintech. At Karat, we believe great internal systems — powered by automation, AI, and thoughtful UX — can replace layers of manual ops. This is a high-leverage, highly autonomous role for someone who loves building internal tools that feel like magic: fast, reliable, and deeply impactful.

What they're looking for

  • 1-3+ years of experience as a software engineer, product engineer, or technical generalist
  • Strong coding skills in JavaScript/TypeScript (React + Node preferred)
  • Comfort working across the stack and owning products end-to-end
  • Experience building internal tools, automation systems, or operational platforms
  • Excitement about shipping practical AI/LLM use cases that drive real outcomes
  • Strong product intuition and bias toward impact and speed
More about this role

We're building the one-stop shop for creator finances.

Your favorite digital creators—the ones you follow every day on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch—aren’t just extraordinarily talented personalities and community builders. They’re also businesses. That means they have business needs—managing revenues, expenses, savings, credit, and banking. We’re building products that help creators spend less time worrying about finances so they can focus on creating.

We’re looking for a Product Engineer to help us build the smallest, smartest back office in fintech.

At Karat, we believe great internal systems — powered by automation, AI, and thoughtful UX — can replace layers of manual ops. This is a high-leverage, highly autonomous role for someone who loves building internal tools that feel like magic: fast, reliable, and deeply impactful.

You’ll own and evolve the systems that power our operations, support, risk, and compliance teams — from admin dashboards and Slack bots to real-time notifications and AI-assisted workflows. Your work will directly enable Karat to scale efficiently without adding headcount.

You’ll partner closely with product, ops, risk, and engineering to identify...

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