The Work
Take the verification score from shadow mode to enforced. No statement ships below the bar. Every number on every client's books is provably right.
Direct bank and card connections. Reconcile against actual bank truth in near real time. This is greenfield — yours to design from scratch.
Nightly jobs that touch 1,000 QuickBooks files, chunked and checkpointed. Rate-limit-aware, idempotent, resumable. Built for serverless time ceilings.
Tests on every money path. Staging environment. Real migration pipeline. Monitoring that catches silent failures in minutes, not days.
Be Straight With You
A large production system built end to end by the founder with Claude Code: the SNAP backend our bookkeeping team lives in every day, a client portal, an AI categorization pipeline that writes to live QuickBooks ledgers nightly, a monthly close workflow, billing, and a few dozen cron jobs.
It works and it ships fast. What it does not have yet is the safety net: automated tests on the money paths, a staging environment, strict type checking, migration tooling, and monitoring that catches silent failures. The job is to keep the shipping speed and add the net.
~90 client businesses on the platform
~60 with live QuickBooks connections, growing every month
Real bookkeepers depend on it daily
This is not a side project — it is the system of work
AI-built codebase, fast shipping
Built with Claude Code. Will keep being extended this way
The safety net barely exists yet
Tests, staging, migrations, monitoring — that's the job
The Person
4–8 years shipping production web apps
With at least one stretch as the primary or only owner of something real users depended on. Real users, real bugs, real 2am incidents.
AI-native
You live in Claude Code or Cursor. AI-assisted development is how you work, and you know how to verify what an agent gives you before it touches money.
Full-stack and happy owning everything
Frontend, backend, database, integrations, deploys, and the operational grunt work that keeps it all alive.
You care about getting numbers right
If a dashboard shows a total that is off by 12%, that ruins your day until you know why.
Pragmatic shipper
You would rather improve a working system than tear it down to feel comfortable.
Not For You If
You want to manage people instead of writing code
AI tools feel like cheating or a threat to you
Your first instinct is to rewrite before you understand
You need a clean greenfield and a team before you'll ship
You want the CTO title without the commits
The Stack
The Plan
The Offer
$150K–$190K base
Depending on experience and location
Up to 2% equity
4-year vest, 1-year cliff
Remote
North American time zones preferred
Paid final round
Real codebase, real bug, AI tools
The pitch is the upside and the ownership. A 4.5-to-1 LTV-to-CAC business, 300,000 painting contractors in the US before you count the other trades, and the platform is already the system of work for a real bookkeeping team. Ground floor, meaningful equity, and you get to define how engineering works here.
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