Kato

Kato is building a compliance-first AI servicing platform for the $24B lending market. Their first product is a Voice AI agent handling loan servicing calls for fintechs like Bilt Rewards and Parafin. Backed by Pear VC and angels from Brex, Bridge, and Square. Early hire (second engineering hire) working directly with the CTO (ex-Google/Brex EM) and CEO (ex-Goldman/Brex). Responsibilities include owning mission-critical projects across the entire stack, leading the architecture of the real-time voice processing system, optimizing LLM integrations for compliance-aware conversations, and building customer-facing dashboards. Location: San Francisco (4 days/week in-person).