Founding Engineer

This is a remote position.

Hi there. We’re building 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’ve built a product that streamlines that work and connects finance, operations, and partners in one unified platform. We’re now hiring a Founding Engineer — a pivotal role in shaping the technical foundation and culture of Velix. You’ll join as one of the first engineers, working directly with the founders to translate customer pain into scalable, elegant systems that make logistics finance work like magic.

TLDR:

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.

Requirements

What we are looking for

• 6+ years experience with a combination of experience with 0-1 application development and full ownership of the software lifecycle through deployment
• Has prior experience working directly with non-engineer stakeholders/founders, WITHOUT support from product managers.
• AI enthusiast - Built prototypes via Claude Code/Codex and they know how to get more done with AI workflows; comfortable working in an AI-first environment
• Able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome; comfortable working 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 FinTech, APIs, logistics, or multi-sided platforms.
• Proven experience building products with significant data or financial complexity.

Benefits

Our Tech Stack

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

What We Offer

• Meaningful equity
• Remote work with workspace to collaborate in Montreal & Vancouver.
• Bucket List Friday — Every other Friday is a no meetings, no pings day. It's a space 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.

Interview Process

1. Intro Call
2. Technical Interview
3. Career History Conversation
4. References
5. Offer

Why Join

If you love building with purpose, solving real-world financial puzzles, and working with a small team that values mastery, high trust, and care — this is your moment to make an outsized impact.

Join us and help build the future of finance for logistics.