SpendFriend

Careers

Build the control plane for AI spend

Companies are spending on AI faster than they can track it. We give them one gateway that meters every token, enforces every budget, and never blocks an employee mid-task.

How we work

Measure, then opine

We build a metering product because we believe decisions need data. That applies internally too — bring evidence, not vibes.

Never block the employee

Our flagship design principle: governance that degrades gracefully. We hire people who prefer guardrails over gates.

Metadata-first privacy

We store token counts, not prompt bodies, unless a customer opts in. We hold ourselves to the same standard we ship.

Small team, hard problems

Streaming gateways, quota engines, cost-per-outcome analytics — the work is deep. We stay small and senior on purpose.

Open roles

EngineeringRemote (US)

Staff Engineer — LLM Gateway

Own the streaming proxy path: provider adapters, SSE end-to-end, sub-50ms overhead, and the quota fast-path in Redis.

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EngineeringRemote (US)

Full-Stack Engineer — Metering & Dashboards

Build the meter-event pipeline, rollups, and the admin/employee dashboards that make AI spend legible to finance.

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DesignRemote (US)

Product Designer

Design the surfaces employees and admins live in — chat, budgets, tier badges, and anomaly alerts that explain themselves.

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Don't see your role? We hire slowly and keep a shortlist — send a note to [email protected] with what you'd own.

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