About the company
Our client is a seed-stage consumer fintech company building an AI tax accountant backed by human CPA expertise. Customers reach the service by call, text, chat or email, and staff CPAs review high-impact decisions. The company has raised $7M and is building a year-round financial partnership instead of a once-a-year tax questionnaire.
The role / why it matters
As Senior Software Engineer, you will own product features from backend data architecture to the UI on a small remote team. You will turn agent workflows into reliable experiences people can trust with sensitive financial data, and help shape architecture as the product grows.
What you'll do
• Design, build and operate production full-stack features in TypeScript, Node.js and React.
• Own data models, backend services, event flows and user interfaces end to end.
• Build data pipelines and distributed systems as customer usage grows.
• Partner with AI engineers to bring agent workflows into polished product experiences.
• Design auditability, security and access controls for a regulated financial domain.
• Use AI coding tools daily and help establish the team's engineering practices.
Requirements
What we're looking for
• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience after school.
• A degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field.
• A record of shipping and operating production full-stack features from data model through UI.
• Production TypeScript experience with Node.js and React or Next.js, plus Python, Kafka or event-driven pipelines and distributed systems.
• Experience at an early-stage startup or a startup-like team, and with fintech payments, billing, ledger or risk systems.
• Strong ownership, product judgment and comfort shipping with minimal guidance.
Bonus points
• Familiarity with security and compliance for sensitive financial data.
• Experience building scalable backend services and microservices.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
• $185,000-$225,000 annual base salary.
• Competitive equity.
• Quarterly team offsites.
Location / work model
Full-time and fully remote for candidates based in New York, Chicago or the US Pacific time zone. Optional collaboration is available in New York and Chicago; quarterly offsite travel is required. Relocation support is not available. Visa sponsorship and transfers are not available.
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