Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at a fintech company building AI-powered finance automation. You will develop foundational systems used across the product, helping engineering teams deliver reliable tools for finance workflows.

What You'll Do

• Build and own core platform capabilities, including agent frameworks, orchestration, verification, observability, and developer tooling.

• Design financial data infrastructure that ingests, normalizes, and reconciles information from ERP, banking, billing, payroll, and CRM systems.

• Work directly with customers and finance professionals to understand workflows and turn them into reusable platform capabilities.

• Guide architectural decisions, identify bottlenecks, make technical tradeoffs, and contribute across the stack when needed.

• Lead cross-functional engineering work that improves the platform and enables product teams to build and ship effectively.

What We're Looking For

• Four to twelve years of backend or platform software engineering experience, with strong Python skills.

• Deep expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure, including experience building foundational systems that operate at scale.

• Experience delivering high-impact, cross-functional engineering projects in production.

• Ability to build with TypeScript and React when needed, alongside experience with AWS.

• Comfort using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar.

• Experience speaking directly with customers, such as finance teams, controllers, or CFOs, about technical solutions.

• Strong computer science fundamentals and experience in a high-growth technology environment; fintech, accounting, ERP, payments, ledger systems, or enterprise integrations are helpful.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $180,000 to $270,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in New York, New York, United States.