Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at an AI-powered finance automation company. You will build foundational systems for AI agents and financial data, enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable tools for finance workflows.

What You'll Do

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

• Design data infrastructure to ingest, normalize, and reconcile information from enterprise resource planning systems, banks, billing, payroll, and customer relationship management platforms.

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

• Make architectural decisions in ambiguous situations, identify bottlenecks, and deliver full-stack solutions where needed.

• Lead cross-functional engineering projects that improve the capabilities of the broader team.

What We're Looking For

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

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

• Experience delivering high-impact engineering projects in production and working directly with customers on technical solutions.

• Ability to contribute to TypeScript and React applications when needed.

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

• Strong computer science fundamentals, supported by relevant education or equivalent experience.

• Experience in an early-stage startup or in fintech, accounting, ERP, payments, ledger systems, enterprise integrations, or financial data pipelines is useful.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $270,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Equity is not specified.

Location

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