Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Farsight operates at the cutting-edge of AI to deliver human-like work within some of the world’s largest, and most critical, financial organizations. We have an extensive backlog from customer demand along with immense opportunities for product innovation. As such, we require someone that will not only ship features but will also move the ball forward towards a unified and expansive platform offering.

You will have full ownership of projects that you will have to design, implement, and deploy at scale in a highly fluid and fast-paced startup environment. While you will have to create clean, efficient, and ready-for-change software, you will also have to listen to customer feedback, prioritize work streams, and gauge quality of outputs with a critical lens. On the software side specifically, your work will range from longer-term research projects to bug fixes alike - all of which crucial to our company’s success.

Desired Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time software engineering experience
• Deep knowledge and experience with building full-stack, user-friendly applications ready for scale
• Experience with Typescript, Python, and cloud-based infrastructure like AWS
• Strong interest in learning and understanding generative AI technology and the current, rapidly evolving landscape
• Experience working in unstructured environments, where you took full autonomy in delivering projects from conception to deployment
• You are intrinsically motivated and self-critical of your work, two aspects that are important for rapid innovation on a lean team
• Able to effectively communicate with and collaborate with a growing team
• Bring a positive and fun attitude to the workplace!

Above and Beyond Qualifications

• Former early engineer or founder at a fast-growing startup
• Previous AI research and/or interactions with AI systems, including utilizing closed-source models, fine-tuning and spinning up open-sourced models, etc.
• Deep understanding of scalable system design, performance optimization, and resilience engineering
• Extensive front-end experience in tandem with some experience in UI / UX design work
• Previous experience interacting with customers and receiving customer feedback
• Previous experience in a leadership role in a technical position