Staff Software Engineer

What You'll Do

• Projected Division of Responsibilities: 70% contributing code / 30% collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring
• Lead Strategy with Urgency: Drive architectural decisions that support long-term stability while maintaining the pace required by a fast-growing banking platform.
• You will identify critical paths and make high-stakes technical calls to keep the organization moving efficiently.
• Balance Coding & Leadership: Maintain a projected division of roughly 70% contributing high-quality code and 30% driving technical alignment.
• You will be expected to ship individually while unblocking the wider team.
• Drive Execution: Lead the development of complex initiatives by chunking and sequencing work to maximize parallelization.
• You will be responsible for maintaining high throughput and ensuring features reach production without unnecessary delays.
• Amplify the Team: Amplify your skills and vision by supporting the growth of the team.
• You will mentor team members both directly and by example, helping others reach their true potential and driving engineering best practices.
• Optimize for Value: Leverage strong pattern recognition to build SaaS applications that effectively balance complexity, quality, and speed of delivery.
• You will build for our customers, avoiding complexity for complexity’s sake.
• Elevate Standards: Lead initiatives to fine-tune controls and communication channels to improve predictability and system reliability.
• You will use data to ruthlessly prioritize work that moves the needle.

What You'll Bring

• Seasoned Engineering Expertise: 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering significant projects in fast-paced, production SaaS environments.
• You have a holistic understanding of web architectures and are comfortable navigating a broad system.
• Operational Resilience: You thrive in high-velocity environments and are comfortable making decisions under pressure.
• You understand that a perfect architecture is useless if it doesn't ship, and you know how to manage trade-offs to maintain momentum.
• Architectural Maturity: A quality-first mentality, but with a bias for action. You can quickly identify the trade-offs between "doing it right" and "doing it now," and you know when to pull which lever.
• Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in modern programming languages and web application frameworks, along with strong competence in data modeling for relational databases and distributed cloud platforms.
• Security & Compliance Awareness: Experience in regulated industries (like Fintech or Healthcare) is a nice-to-have. We value engineers who instinctively design for security, reliability and compliance without slowing down execution.
• Strategic Problem Solving: You can take a high-level business goal and independently drive it to a technical solution, navigating ambiguity and minimizing churn along the way.

What You'll Get

• Impact & Ownership: A unique opportunity to shape the future of banking through AI, owning end-to-end product initiatives.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside a talented and passionate team that values continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Competitive Compensation: Includes salary, benefits, and potential equity in a fast-growing startup.
• Professional Growth: Access to resources and mentorship to expand your skill set, influence strategy, and accelerate your career.
• Culture of Innovation: We encourage risk-taking, learning from failures, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in fintech.

Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• React
• NextJS
• Postgres with Prisma
• Python
• AWS