About Straddle, Inc. Straddle is an open-banking payments platform for account-to-account money movement. Backed by Drive Capital.
About the role
Want to be at the frontier of how the products of tomorrow get built? We're hiring Agentic Engineers who build by directing AI coding agents and own the outcome. Straddle is building the rails for the next era of payments, with the goal of moving money as fast as data moves. Identity verification, open banking, and compliance in a single API. You'll join Agentic Engineering, a new team at Straddle dedicated to building this way.
What they're looking for
- Spec before you build. Turn product and technical intent into precise specs agents can execute: clear interfaces, scope, and acceptance criteria. This is the highest-leverage part of the job
- Decompose for agents. Break features, migrations, and bugs into agent-sized tasks. Knowing what's too big for one pass, and how to slice it, is the craft
- Direct and orchestrate. Run multiple agents in parallel across features, integrations, and backlog. Keep them unblocked, correct course early, reset when a session drifts
- Own verification. Build the tests, builds, and checks that let agents self-correct. On payment and compliance paths, if you can't verify it, it doesn't ship
- Review at volume. Read agent diffs critically for correctness, security, performance, and fit. You own the merge, the deploy, and the consequences
- Improve the system. Maintain the shared context agents rely on (project memory, skills, hooks, integrations, CI) so everyone's agents get better. Treat specs and agent config as version-controlled engineering
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About the role
Want to be at the frontier of how the products of tomorrow get built? We're hiring Agentic Engineers who build by directing AI coding agents and own the outcome. Straddle is building the rails for the next era of payments, with the goal of moving money as fast as data moves. Identity verification, open banking, and compliance in a single API. You'll join Agentic Engineering, a new team at Straddle dedicated to building this way. We work alongside Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Data Science on the same roadmap, but a level up from traditional coding: turning ambiguous problems into precise specs, breaking them into agent-sized tasks, running several coding agents in parallel, and reviewing what they ship with a high bar. You'll write code by hand when that's the faster path, and delegate the rest. Because this is the infrastructure money runs on, security and correctness are never optional, and the bar you hold on agent output is what keeps it that way. The team is small and early, so you'll also shape how Straddle builds with agents: the standards, tooling, and shared context the rest of engineering will run on.
What you'll do
- Spec before you...
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