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Reliever is building a financial operating system for volunteer-run nonprofit youth sports associations. These organizations manage hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars annually through dues, fundraisers, sponsorships, and charitable gambling—all on spreadsheets, personal QuickBooks files, and email chains. Reliever replaces this patchwork with a modern platform combining software, embedded banking, and professional accounting services.
You will be Reliever's first engineering hire and the future owner of its codebase. The initial product build is underway with development partner Blank Metal using an AI-agent harness architecture where agents handle much of the building within a framework of specifications, tests, and human review. You will embed with the Blank Metal team from day one, contributing production code, learning the architecture, and preparing for a clean handoff to in-house ownership.
Once the platform transitions in-house, you own it entirely: the codebase, architecture, AI systems, and development roadmap. This is AI/ML engineering in two senses. The product itself is AI-native, with intelligence in daily close, transaction categorization, document processing, and compliance logic. The development process is also AI-native: every engineer works with agents, and the harness is the development environment.
You will embed with Blank Metal during initial product build, contributing production code and working fluently within the harness architecture. You'll lead the technical handoff, absorbing the architecture and operational runbooks so ownership transfers without losing velocity. Post-handoff, you own development end-to-end: architecture decisions, release process, code quality, and engineering roadmap. You'll hold the platform to fintech-grade standards for reliability, security, and data protection, supporting SOC 2 readiness. You'll integrate and maintain banking-as-a-service, card issuing, and accounting integrations.
You'll design, ship, and improve AI/ML systems at the product's heart: transaction categorization, automated reconciliation, AI daily close, document extraction for receipts and tax forms, and compliance logic for nonprofit filings. You'll build evaluation, guardrail, and human-in-the-loop patterns that let AI operate safely in a financial system of record. You'll extend the harness itself with better agent workflows, tests, and tooling. You'll orchestrate your own pod of AI agents for development support, consistent with Reliever's AI-first operating model. You'll partner with the founding Product Manager and founding CPA to turn accounting expertise and user stories into working software.
This is a founding-team seat at a venture-backed company co-founded with Rally Ventures. You'll have full ownership of an entire AI-native fintech platform, with your fingerprints on the architecture, product, and company itself. This is a hybrid role based in Minneapolis; candidates must currently reside in or be relocating to Minnesota. No visa sponsorship available.
