Kita
Founding Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- No years-of-experience requirement.
About the job
Build and harden AI-driven credit underwriting systems for regulated lenders, including integrations with messaging platforms, loan origination systems, and core banking stacks.
What you'll do
- Develop agentic workflows for collecting borrower information, analyzing finances, and producing credit assessments.
- Improve reliability, auditability, security, and performance under enterprise volume and regulatory scrutiny.
- Integrate the systems with loan origination and core banking systems, and work with founders and customers on product direction.
What they ask for
- Production experience with LLM-based systems, including handling hallucinations, drift, evaluations, versioning, and cost.
- Strong backend fundamentals; Python and TypeScript are daily-use languages.
- Ability to research and build, work through ambiguity, and collaborate closely with customers.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, lending, payments, or another regulated industry; computer vision for real-world documents.
- Spanish or Tagalog.
Tools
Python, TypeScript, LLM
AI focus
Build and operate agentic AI workflows for credit underwriting, with emphasis on evaluation, reliability, traceability, and production performance.
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