Engineer - Future Founder

Responsibilities

• Take problems from discovery to production. Partner with Product, Design, and fellow engineers (EPD) to understand problems and build out end to end product solutions.
• Get close to the customer and the business. Work directly with financial advisors and internal teams to uncover friction, challenge assumptions, and identify opportunities to improve client experiences, reduce manual work, or support growth.
• Use AI, like coding agents, to expand what you can accomplish. Use the latest and greatest tools you discovered at 1am on X to deliver even faster the following day. Stay accountable to your product execution (but don't feel like you need to review every line of code written).
• Make thoughtful decisions about what to build. Just because you can build anything doesn't mean you should.
• Own the outcome (one of our core values).

Must have

• Evidence that you build things. We'll be looking for side projects, attempts at launching businesses, startup accelerator applications, etc.
• Solid AI-enabled engineering fundamentals. You can wield AI to write and debug code. You don’t need to know our entire stack -- Codex and Claude can teach you.
• An AI-first approach to building. You already use AI tools in your development workflow and actively experiment with better ways to build, and you rarely write a line of code yourself. You can evaluate their output, investigate mistakes, and recognize when you need to shift how you're using the agents.
• High agency and follow-through. When you encounter something unclear or broken, you investigate, ask useful questions, propose a path forward, and see it through. You know when to work independently and when to bring others in.
• Desire to build a business. You want to understand who the customer is, why a problem matters, and how solving it creates enterprise value.
• A collaborative & coachable approach. You communicate clearly, seek feedback early, change your mind when the evidence warrants it. You care more about the business impact than the path to get there.
• A willingness to quit after 18 months to be a founder. We expect this to be a short-term stint with Savvy. We want you to learn as much as possible in 18 months and then delight us with a resignation note titled "I got a pre-seed check, goodbye." (Just leave us a little allocation, please!) (And you might even find your co-founder here.)

Nice to have

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
• Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
• NYC office in the heart of Manhattan
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office
• Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health) and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care
• Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)