Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

About this role

About the RoleJoin 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 DoBuild 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 ForFour 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 & BenefitsBase salary: $180,000 to $270,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Equity is not specified. LocationOn-site in New York, New York, United States.