Stillingsbeskrivelse
## **Come build the AI Watchdog for company spending**
At Watchdog, we are building AI that stops companies from overpaying.
Businesses all over the world rely on invoices. Yet, invoice verification and contract compliance are still handled manually across spreadsheets, emails, and siloed systems. Millions in invoicing errors slip through, contracts are not enforced, and money quietly leaks out of organizations.
We believe this should be automated. Watchdog continuously checks invoices against signed contracts and alerts companies when something is wrong before money leaves the business.
Our mission is to give companies real visibility and control over their spend by turning contracts into enforced systems. We are early, ambitious, and focused on solving a concrete, high-impact problem.
Now we are looking for our first technical hire to help us build the product, the platform, and the company from the ground up.
## **The role**
As our Founding Engineer, you will work side by side with the founders to turn ideas into products. You will have meaningful influence over architecture, technology choices, and how we build going forward.
You will own large parts of the system end to end, make foundational decisions early, and help set the technical and cultural bar for everything that comes after.
If you are motivated by ownership, impact, and building something that did not exist before, this role is for you.
## **What you will work on**
- Build and own core systems across the full stack, from infrastructure to frontend
- Design and implement scalable APIs, services, and data pipelines
- Implementing state of the art AI agents
- Make early architectural decisions with long-term scalability in mind
- Translate complex business and data problems into clean technical solutions
- Ship features quickly while maintaining a high quality bar
- Shape engineering standards, tooling, and way of working from day one
You will be involved in everything from product discussions to production deployments
## **Who we think will thrive here**
We are looking for someone who wants responsibility and impact.
You will likely recognize yourself in several of these:
- You have built a product you are genuinely proud of, professionally or independently
- You are comfortable working across the stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL)
- You enjoy solving ambiguous problems and figuring things out as you go
- You care about simplicity, good abstractions, and developer experience
- You work autonomously and take ownership of outcomes.
- You are excited by early-stage environments where things move fast and you have a direct impact on the company.
## **Nice to have - but not required**
- Experience with AI-driven products, machine learning, or LLMs
- Exposure to B2B SaaS, fintech, or enterprise integrations
- Previous experience in an early-stage startup
If you do not tick all the boxes, but feel this role fits how you want to work, we still want to hear from you.
## **Why join Watchdog**
- A genuine founding role with real influence over product and technology
- Close collaboration with the founders and fast decision-making
- Hard, meaningful problems with clear business impact
- High ownership and trust from day one
- An in-person team in central Oslo, because we believe building together matters
This is a chance to help define not just a product, but how a company is built.
Please apply below or reach out to our recruiter Sebastian Meum at Sebastian@watchdog.no
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