Software Engineer

<p>Clusia is led by Reed Switzer, founder of Hopscotch, a B2B payments startup acquired by Avalara / Vista Equity Partners, and Nolan Hendrickson, who previously led engineering teams within Microsoft’s Defender organization. <strong>The company is venture-backed and has not yet been publicly announced.</strong></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Company Description</strong></p><p><span>Clusia is the first AI-native assurance firm for companies that move money.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span>We conduct the audits and independent testing fintechs, payments companies, and banks are required to complete each year — including annual ACH audits and BSA/AML testing. Our in-house U.S.-based auditors do the work, while Clusia’s software reduces evidence gathering, pre-fills responses, and makes each engagement faster and more efficient.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span>We believe the next great assurance firm will be built like a software company. Clusia is building that firm — bringing more regulatory assurance under one roof and using technology to improve quality, increase auditor capacity, and deliver better economics for customers.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Role Description</strong></p><p>We are looking for a small number of engineers to work closely with the CTO and our founding engineers.</p><p><br /></p><p>This will not be a big team. We plan to stay lean, with high talent density, no layers, and no fluff. As a member of the technical staff, you’ll own important parts of the product and company from the beginning -- from core architecture and infrastructure to customer-facing workflows and AI-powered product experiences.</p><p><br /></p><p>You won’t be handed a neatly scoped ticket queue. You’ll be expected to understand customer problems deeply, make good technical decisions in ambiguity, and build systems that can earn trust in a highly regulated environment.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Compensation range:</strong> $125,000 - $200,000 base salary + equity and benefits</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Note: This role is in-person in New York City and you are required to ship code. </strong></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Why Join</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Assurance is next up.</strong> We believe assurance is entering the same kind of transformation legal tech has seen over the last two years: large, high-stakes workflows being rebuilt around AI, collaboration, and better systems of record.</li><li><strong>We’re building a small, high-talent-density team.</strong> Clusia will remain lean by design. There will be few openings and the bar for talent is incredibly high.</li><li><strong>Your work will matter at global scale.</strong> The systems we’re building will power critical operations for some of the largest financial institutions and technology companies in the world.</li><li><strong>You’ll work with founders who have done this before.</strong> The founding team has built and sold venture-backed companies in the past and is applying those lessons to build Clusia with focus, urgency, and ambition.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul><li><strong>AI expertise:</strong> You have hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval, prompting, and production AI systems.</li><li><strong>Full-stack product engineering:</strong> You can build clean, reliable product experiences end to end.</li><li><strong>Infrastructure depth:</strong> You’re comfortable with cloud services, deployment, observability, reliability, and security.</li><li><strong>AI evaluation experience:</strong> You know how to design tests, benchmarks, and feedback loops to measure model and agent quality.</li><li><strong>Startup execution mindset:</strong> You’re pragmatic, fast-moving, product-minded, and comfortable owning ambiguous technical problems.</li><li><strong>Empathy for users:</strong> You care deeply about the people using what you build, not just the technical elegance of the solution.</li><li><strong>Creating:</strong> You’ve built things outside of work -- maybe a Minecraft server as a kid, a side project, a tool for your friends, a company, an open-source project, or something nobody asked you to build.</li></ul>