Descripción del puesto
<p style="min-height:1.5em">Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As our first Finance Systems hire, you will play a critical role in implementing systems as well as ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and scalability of our overall financial environment. This is a builder role — not a backlog manager, not an architect who hands off to others.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re looking for our first Finance Systems Engineer to support and evolve our Accounting, Billing, and Finance tools to support a fast-growing business. In this role, you will focus on ensuring that our environment supports scalable, accurate, and efficient financial processes across Order to Cash and Record to Report.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll be a team of one initially, and in the future, the most technically sophisticated member of the Finance Systems team: the one who sets the standards, solves the hardest problems, and makes everyone around you faster and better without stepping out of the code yourself.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the technical architecture of Cursor’s finance systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead and execute the most complex, ambiguous implementations across Finance systems — initially starting in Order to Cash.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with Sales, Finance, Legal, and RevOps to translate messy commercial requirements into clean, scalable technical solutions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Champion AI-forward automation in how Finance systems are built and operated.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build with a strong balance of code and configuration — knowing when each is the right tool and why.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You may be a fit if</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've owned complex Finance Systems environments and integrations as a hands on developer.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've implemented or fully owned an ERP or major components of one end-to-end and can speak to what broke and what you'd do differently.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've worked at pre-IPO companies through periods of real growth — you know what adversity looks like and you stayed through it.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have strong opinions about developer tooling, CI/CD, and how to maintain velocity with safety.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You mentor by doing — pairing, building together, raising the team's technical ceiling through proximity, not PowerPoint.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You're energized by ambiguity, move fast by default, and are burned by orgs where shipping takes a quarter.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Years of hands-on experience matter to you more than certifications — and to us too.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>If you have any of these, we should talk!</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have a software engineering background and work on systems like Netsuite, Stripe, and other Order to Cash systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You are proficient in a general purpose programming language, ideally having shipped production code.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Your strong SQL is your second or third most important skill.</p></li></ul>