Founding Engineer

Full time · Remote · Engineering

About Velix

Velix is a venture-backed startup building a financial operations platform for logistics. Our early customers lose countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars every year reconciling, managing disputes, and connecting fragmented systems.

We’re looking for a world-class full-stack engineer who loves turning complex, messy systems into simple, scalable ones.

What you’ll do

• Own your work, from requirements gathering to building the user interface, backend architecture, and infrastructure, including ongoing operations.
• Design and build our reconciliation and billing platform, from document processing pipelines and API integrations to user interfaces and browser automations.
• Collaborate closely with customers and founders to understand real pain points and translate them into elegant technical solutions.
• Move fast, ship fast. Propose and deliver solutions end-to-end without heavy oversight.
• Wear multiple hats. You might spin up infrastructure one day, design an internal tool the next, and optimize performance the day after.
• Shape the culture. Help define our engineering principles, code quality standards, and internal processes as we scale.
• Build with leverage. Use AI tools like Claude Code and Codex to accelerate delivery, prototype ideas, and improve developer velocity.
• Contribute to product strategy. Work hand-in-hand with design to simplify complexity into intuitive UX and actionable insights.
• Think in systems. Design scalable, modular components that make it easy for others to build on your work later.
• Deliver incremental functionality. Break projects and features down into incremental deliverables to provide quick, visible results to customers and other stakeholders.

What we’re looking for

• 6+ years experience with a combination of 0-1 application development and full ownership of the software lifecycle through deployment.
• Prior experience working directly with non-engineer stakeholders/founders, without support from product managers.
• AI enthusiast — you build prototypes via Claude Code/Codex and know how to get more done with AI workflows; comfortable in an AI-first environment.
• Able to write well-factored algorithms, with experience using common data structures and algorithms.
• Customer obsession — you can articulate and represent the customer experience to drive the right outcome, and work directly with customers to gather requirements.
• A collaborative, low-ego attitude and team-first mindset.
• Experience in logistics, APIs, or multi-sided platforms.

Bonus points

• Experience at an early stage startup.
• Prior work in a FinTech, APIs, Logistics, or multi-sided platform company.
• Proven experience building product with significant data or financial complexity.

Our stack

• Frontend: React
• Backend: Node.js (Express) + TypeScript
• Infra & Data: AWS
• AI: Cursor + Claude Code + Codex

What we offer

• Meaningful equity.
• Remote work with a workspace to collaborate in Montreal.
• Bucket List Friday — every other Friday is a no-meetings, no-pings day to hack on AI, pursue passion projects, or invest in experiences that matter to you.
• All the latest tools — MacBook, monitor, whatever you need.
• 2 weeks of paid vacation minimum, plus flexible time off as needed.
• A chance to shape the company’s trajectory from the ground up.