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Staff Software Engineer

208k – 307kNew York, NYHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

Staff Software Engineer building autonomous AI systems for financial data extraction and integration repair. Hands-on role defining architecture, observability, and safety for production LLM-powered platforms.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical direction and architecture for autonomous AI systems that create, repair, and improve financial institution integrations.
  • Create novel observability, monitoring, and debugging platforms to provide engineers with deep visibility into the behavior, decisions, and performance of AI-powered systems.
  • Build LLM-powered code generation pipelines that write, validate, and ship production code end-to-end with minimal human intervention.
  • Design evaluation frameworks that measure correctness, reliability, and safety for non-deterministic systems operating at scale.
  • Architect self-healing infrastructure that detects, diagnoses, and repairs itself in under 24 hours.
  • Develop multi-layer safety architectures to ensure AI systems take the correct actions in production and degrade safely when uncertainty exists.
  • Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to identify high-leverage automation opportunities and turn them into production systems.
  • Raise the technical bar across the organization through mentorship, design reviews, and hands-on leadership.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience with deep focus on backend and/or platform systems.
  • Ability to balance divergent thinking (exploring possibilities) with convergent thinking (evaluating feasibility).
  • Must be comfortable working hands-on directly in the codebase. This is a builder archetype position. You will spend considerable time designing and then building the actual systems you own.
  • Must be comfortable moving fast, which means making trade-offs between technical excellence and the rapid deployment of working systems to validate whether approaches are fruitful.

Nice to Haves

  • Previous experience building production generative AI systems that customers interact with.
  • Experience with browser automation, web automation, scraping, extraction systems, or tools such as Playwright, Stagehand, or similar frameworks.
Skills
Backend SystemsPlatform EngineeringLLMsGenerative AIObservabilityCode Generation PipelinesEvaluation FrameworksSelf-Healing InfrastructureSafety ArchitecturesPlaywright
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