You will build the foundational financial layer for the agentic economy, creating KYA (Know Your Agent) protocols and multi-rail payment systems. As an early engineer, you will own entire systems end-to-end, defining how autonomous AI agents access the API economy and move money in a machine-to-machine world.
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Software Engineer at Sapiom
Join the elite team building the financial infrastructure for the agentic economy. Backed by $15 million from Accel, Anthropic, and Coinbase Ventures, this San Francisco-based startup is creating the essential KYA and payment rails that allow AI agents to autonomously transact in the real world. If you want to define how money moves in the era of AGI, this is the ground-floor opportunity you’ve been looking for.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Sapiom
The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.
Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.
We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmatic commerce for the AI era.
Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.
We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and implement mission-critical payments infrastructure, including automated wallets and spending controls specifically for AI agents.
- Architect robust, scalable systems that handle thousands of autonomous micro-transactions across diverse financial rails and cloud providers.
- Collaborate directly with the founders to solve complex problems at the intersection of identity, risk, and high-velocity financial movement.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience building deep infrastructure, payments, or developer platforms at high-signal companies like Stripe, Modern Treasury, or Vercel.
- Exceptional engineering agency and a "frontier" mindset, with a strong conviction that AI is fundamentally reshaping how commerce functions.
- Mastery of modern tech stacks and the ability to navigate complex financial abstractions while maintaining the high-velocity output required at the seed stage.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Build category-defining infrastructure at the absolute frontier of AI and fintech, creating the rails that allow autonomous agents to operate in the real economy.
- Join an elite founding team from Shopify, Affirm, and Modern Treasury, backed by top-tier investors including Accel, Menlo Ventures, and founders of Anthropic.
- High-autonomy environment with no PMs or specs; you own the product direction and ship with the urgency of a team building generational infrastructure.
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How Jack & Jill work together
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If it’s a match and the company wants to meet you, they’ll make the intro. In the meantime, if you’d like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.