Internal Tools Engineer
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Internal Tools Engineer owning internal systems for a quantitative strategy startup. Automating operations, finance, reporting, and spreadsheet workflows while working directly with the founder.
Responsibilities:
- Own and take over the internal platform used daily by operations, finance, and delivery teams
- Learn, document, and stabilize existing systems so they do not depend on any single person
- Build data capture and reporting to make key business metrics visible using agreed definitions
- Replace spreadsheet-based workflows with platform systems, one workflow at a time
- Identify and remove operational constraints by prioritizing the highest-impact work
- Provide short weekly written updates, clear dates, and early warnings about risks or delays
- Work directly with the founder without layers
Requirements:
- You have been the engineer an operations team depended on; ideally you were early at a startup and built the internal systems the company ran on
- Strong writing skills; ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical readers and provide short, specific, timely status updates
- Operations-minded approach, prioritizing fixes that materially save time
- Experience across application development, third-party integrations, data modelling, and sufficient infrastructure to maintain your own work
- Effective use of AI tooling to work at a multiple of normal pace
- Genuine autonomy and reliability in a remote environment
- Ability to handle sensitive data and money-adjacent workflows with discretion and care
- Bonus: experience inheriting and making undocumented systems dependable
- Bonus: experience in operations-heavy businesses such as logistics, field services, fintech onboarding, or marketplaces
- Bonus: experience with payments, reconciliation, or multi-account financial tooling
- Bonus: familiarity with Notion, Discord, Google Workspace, Airtable, and lightweight project management tools
- Bonus: interest in startups, investing, alternative markets, or behavioral strategy
Benefits:
- Own an entire function from day one, working directly with a high-caliber founder
- No red tape. You propose an improvement and you ship it
- Shape how a fast-growing company is built from the ground up
- Competitive compensation based on experience
- Fully remote with flexible hours
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