Founding Engineer, Frontend

Why we are building Zero

Sree: For nearly a decade, personal finance was my second job. I built infrastructure at NVIDIA, founded a company acquired by Harvey, and helped build Harvey’s early engineering team. Through all of it, I spent nights teaching myself how to manage equity, investments, retirement accounts, and taxes. I built spreadsheets, paid advisors, and became the person friends came to with financial questions.

Knowing all that did not protect me. I still missed decisions across my equity and taxes that could have saved me tens of thousands of dollars. I only uncovered these after we built an early version of Zero.

Isaac: My family lost everything in the 2008 crash. I grew up determined to understand how to build and protect financial security, teaching myself about investing at Princeton and eventually making it my career. At Alpine Investors, I worked closely with wealth management and accounting businesses and saw how valuable skilled advice could be. I also saw the catch: you had to know a decision mattered before you knew to ask for help. I knew how easy that moment was to miss: despite everything I’d learned, mistakes with my own investments have cost me more than $50,000.

When we met, we recognized the same pattern in our stories. We had both put in the work to understand our finances, yet consequential decisions still slipped by. Catching those moments takes continuous, coordinated attention – the kind that once required an entire team. We’re building Zero to give everyone that attention: to see the whole picture, identify the right moves at the right time, and help people follow through.

What you will build

Zero is building a financial system that goes beyond answering questions. By combining financial data, deterministic calculations, AI reasoning, and reliable execution, we’re building a system that understands a member’s financial life, identifies opportunities, and helps them act.

You’ll build the experiences that make that intelligence tangible, turning complex financial decisions into something people can understand, trust, and act on. You’ll own features end to end, from the interface members interact with to the APIs and systems behind it.

• Make financial decisions understandable. Turn complex recommendations into clear, interactive experiences. Help members see what Zero is proposing, why it matters, how much it’s worth, and what changes if they choose a different path.
• Build the experience of taking action. Design and implement workflows that connect recommendations to execution. Make approvals intuitive, communicate progress, handle interruptions and failures, and give members confidence in what happened.
• Create a living picture of someone’s finances. Bring cash, investments, equity, income, taxes, and goals into a coherent experience. Help members understand where they stand, how things are changing, and how individual decisions affect the bigger picture.
• Make the first experience immediately valuable. Build onboarding that connects financial information, recognizes what’s missing, and delivers meaningful insights from the start. Ask only what matters, when it matters.
• Invent AI-native financial interfaces. Explore how members interact with a system that can reason, calculate, and act on their behalf. Build adaptive experiences across the app, conversations, notifications, and documents without sacrificing clarity, consistency, or control.

Who you are

• You’ve shipped products end to end and have strong opinions about what makes a great user experience. You can explain both the product and engineering decisions behind your work.
• You’re exceptional with React and TypeScript, and comfortable working across APIs, data models, and backend services to bring a feature to life.
• You care deeply about craft. Interaction details, visual clarity, performance, and the experience of using what you build matter to you.
• You have strong product judgment. You know how to turn complicated information into intuitive experiences, what to simplify, and when to reveal more detail.
• You’re excited about AI-native products and comfortable working with agentic systems. You understand that model-generated experiences still need predictable behavior and clear boundaries.
• You take ownership when problems are ambiguous. You find the missing context, talk to users, make decisions, and carry work through to a result.
• You enjoy building with a small team where the product and your responsibilities will evolve quickly. Early-stage startup experience is a plus.

Why join Zero

• Work on the financial decisions that shape people’s lives. You’ll help people make every dollar count to support their families, build wealth, and plan for the future.
• Join an extraordinary team. You’ll work with people who are among the best at what they do and ambitious about what we can build together. We challenge ideas directly, share context, and help one another get better.
• Build AI people can trust with their money. Zero is already finding moves that matter. You’ll help make the reasoning clear, the numbers dependable, and the actions reliable, with members in control.
• Help shape what Zero becomes. You’ll work directly with us and with members to decide what matters, then build across product and engineering to make it real.

Compensation and process

Base salary is $250K–$350K, set by level. We will not offer below $250K for this role. You’ll also receive equity.

Benefits include 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision, plus 80% health coverage for dependents. They also include a 401(k), commuter benefits, daily meals, and the tools you need to do your best work.

Apply using the form below. If there’s a fit, your first conversation is a 30-minute informal chat with Sree. We move quickly and tailor the rest of the process to your circumstances, so you can get a real feel for the work and the team.