Founding Backend Engineer

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

• Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human-level capabilities

• Design and build novel knowledge graphs algorithms to power search and retrieval over unstructured and structured firm data

• Collaborate with the top AI labs and elite financial firms to design reliable AI-native systems

Who you are

• Track record of extraordinary ability

• 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience

• Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF

• Nice but not required: experience with LLMs, search and retrieval, previous work at a financial firm