Founding Frontend / Full-Stack Engineer
Job Description
About Mako
Mako is developing an AI associate for financial firms - think enterprise search & agents for private equity, hedge funds, and banks
Our mission is to deliver associate‑level AGI
We’ve raised nearly $10M from Menlo and Khosla Ventures
We have strong initial traction - large enterprise contracts and user engagement on par with best-in-class B2B AI applications
Why this role?
High impact: You’ll shape the product and culture from day one. Expect to dive into unsolved challenges at the Gen AI application frontier – enterprise‑scale data retrieval, autonomous agents, and knowledge graphs.
High equity: 0.75%+ equity. $175K - 300K cash. You will own a meaningful piece of the company.
High talent density: Be a part of a great founding team in SF.
Shivaal Roy (CTO) was a founding engineer at Glean ($100M+ ARR today) and managed the Assistant and Search teams, where he solved similar problems.
Danny Goldman (CEO) was a top performer at Bain’s Private Equity group
What you’ll do
Reimagine the frontier of GenAI user interfaces as we deliver human-level capabilities for financial professionals
Own mission-critical features and user experience end-to-end
Iterate rapidly with design, ML, and product
Who you are
Track record of extraordinary ability
3 - 8 years building apps with modern frameworks (React, TypeScript)
Passion for GenAI UI / UX (LLM/chat, data retrieval, agent interfaces)
Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF
Nice but not required: experience with data-heavy products, search/retrieval, or finance-adjacent tools
Company Information
Location: Maceió, Brazil
Type: Hybrid