# Founding Engineer at Kita

- Company: Kita
- What the company does: The AI-native stack for modern underwriting — bespoke to every lending use case. Underwrite borrowers anywhere in the world in minutes. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.kita.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/kita/am9icG9zdDr_nE7C7CDSS8IND7B8Ky6L
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kita-founding-engineer/

## About the role

Credit is the difference between a business that grows and one that doesn't, a family that absorbs a shock and one that doesn't. Kita decides who gets assessed fairly and how fast. That is the scale of what you'd be working on: not a metric on a dashboard, but whether capital reaches people it has never reached before, in five countries and counting.

## What they're looking for

- You go deep. You read the papers, you build the thing, and you're usually a step ahead of where the field was last month
- You research and build in the same motion. New capability lands, you've already tested whether it changes what we should ship
- Genuinely curious about the whole company. Our engineers sit in on sales calls, read customer contracts, and work closely with our customers to understand how they make decisions
- You operate clearly in ambiguity. Not tolerate it, operate in it: you can take a vague problem, find the real constraint, and come back with a plan
- Production experience with LLM-based systems and the aftermath, including hallucinations, drift, evals, versioning, and cost
- Strong backend fundamentals. Python and TypeScript are our daily drivers, but how you think matters more than what you've used