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Head of Engineering / Founding Engineer | Litigation Finance | LA preferred, NYC, or remote

πŸ’° $200,000 - $275,000 🌍 Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Remote, Oregon πŸ“… 06/12/2026

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Job Description

Tech-enabled litigation funder that uses AI to transform the archaic legal
asset industry. Already deployed $40M across thousands of claims and are
scaling rapidly.

As first engineering hire, you'll own the entire technical stack, building
from scratch. You'll work directly with the founders, owning the architecture,
choice of stack, shaping the team, and shipping code that runs in production
for real customers. This role has a direct path to CTO.

$200k-$275k base salary plus 0.5%-2.0% equity (flexible for the right person).
Work in-person in NYC or LA, or remote with quarterly travel for team
kickoffs.

**Company:**
Technology-enabled alternative asset investment firm focused on niche,
uncorrelated investment opportunities in specialty finance, with an initial
focus on litigation finance.

Vertically integrated AI legal asset platform building technology to change
the legal industry. The product spans the full plaintiff-side legal value
chain (origination, case underwriting, law firm operations, capital markets).

To date, has deployed tens of millions of dollars across thousands of
meritorious legal claims in partnership with some of the nation's top law
firms.

**Job:**
The Head of Engineering will be responsible for building all aspects of the
product.

Tech background: Comfprtable on the entire stack, AI-native engineering with
knowledge if the fundamentals,

**Total funding**
$53M

2 employees

* _LA (ideal) or NYC in-person preffered, but open to remote in US with quarterly in-person meets. *_

**Ideal companies & backgrounds**

Legal AI or legal tech companies
Quant / trading firms
Ex-founders / repeat founding engineers

Please get in touch with Hollie with any questions, more info on founders,
company etc, or if you'd like to apply