Founding Engineer at Aqua

The alternative investment industry moves trillions of dollars a year through fax machines, PDFs, and manual data entry. A single subscription into a private equity fund can require 40+ pages of documents, hand-keyed across three different systems, touched by five different people, and take weeks to settle. The infrastructure is decades behind public markets — and the entire wealth management industry knows it. Aqua is fixing this. We're the transaction and automation platform for alternative investments, used by some of the largest RIAs, broker-dealers, and asset managers in the country — including Blackstone, Apollo, Blue Owl, and JLL. We're on track to process $5B in new transactions in 2025. We're a YC-backed company with Series A funding. This is not a clean-sheet build. We operate a production platform handling real money for institutional clients. The interesting engineering problems come from that constraint — you have to build fast and get it right, because the cost of getting it wrong is measured in regulatory risk and real dollars. Here's what you'd actually be working on: Agentic document systems. We're building LLM-powered pipelines that ingest, classify, extract, and