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Cardless
San Francisco, CA, United States
Source: Cardless careers · View original posting
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Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products of their own. Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own. In an industry where branded financial products usually mean shared logos and shared control, Cardless is built to disappear.
Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.
In September 2025, we raised a $60 million Series C led by Spark Capital, bringing our total funding to $170 million. The team is over 70 people and scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.
We're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos. We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Cardless, you own getting a new partner from signed contract to live card program, and you do it with your hands in the code on both sides. Every launch starts similarly: a partner has a product in mind, an existing app, their own engineering team, and a set of constraints. You scope it with them, design the integration, write the guides they build against, and help them get to production.
This involves coordinating the risk, compliance, processor, and bank work that has to land to launch a partner’s card end to end.
To do this effectively, you’ll need to carry a view on where our product belongs inside theirs. Our card lives in the partner's app, in their onboarding funnel, next to their existing product. An application or offer surface placed in the wrong spot converts worse, confuses their customers, and results in a less successful card offering.
Every partner asks for something slightly different, and you decide which of those requests deserve a bespoke path and which are telling you our platform is missing something. Then you go build the missing thing. The goal is that the fifth integration takes a fraction of the time the first one did, because you spent the first four making it so.
This is one of the highest-leverage engineering roles at a platform company, because every partner launch is revenue and you are the person it runs through. You'll see more of our system than almost anyone, work directly with the engineering teams at some of the best companies in the world, and have unusual influence over what we build next, since you're the one who knows what our partners actually need.
Compensation
This role has an annual starting salary range of $190,000 - $295,000 + equity + benefits (see below). Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, and specific work location.
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