Senior/Staff Software Engineer
NEW YORK, NYFull-timeSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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This role sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions. The engineer builds, operates, and scales services spanning core banking, workflows, and compliance, with end-to-end ownership from design through production operation. The position calls for deep distributed-systems experience, a correctness-first mindset, sound engineering judgment, and effective collaboration across engineering and operations.
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Position Type : Full timeType Of Hire : Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)Job DescriptionROLE SUMMARY Sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group.The role builds, operates, and scales the services at the heart of the platform - spanning Core Banking, workflows, and compliance. These systems define financial products, manage accounts, execute and record money movement, orchestrate banking processes, and enforce regulatory rules at Tier-1 scale.Requires deep experience with complex distributed systems, a correctness-first mindset, sound engineering judgement, and full end-to-end ownership from design through production operation. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Banking Platform Engineering * Build and evolve the capabilities that bring modern banking products to life - from products and accounts through transactions, transfers, journals, balances, and interest, to durable workflows and compliance controls. * Define reliable APIs, events, and data contracts that connect these capabilities into a coherent, auditable banking platform. Production Ownership * Own services throughout their lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement. * Participate in on-call and incident response, diagnosing failures across distributed services, data infrastructure, and event-driven workflows. * Establish effective observability, alerting, operational controls, and recovery procedures; learn from production incidents to improve reliability, performance, and operational maturity. Architecture and Delivery * Design systems for correctness, auditability, scalability, and resilience at Tier-1 banking scale, making pragmatic trade-offs between delivery speed, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability. * Improve engineering practices across automated testing, CI/CD, safe deployment, rollback, and recovery. * Use AI-assisted engineering, MCP servers, agent workflows, and automated runbooks where they materially improve engineering or operational outcomes. * Contribute to team excellence through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching, helping to develop technical capability and promote engineering best practices across the organization REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & CAPABILITIES Engineering Depth * Deep experience designing and building complex distributed systems at scale, using a strongly typed, compiled language. Go is preferred, but deep experience with a comparable language is welcome. * Experience with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms. * Strong understanding of concurrency, consistency, invariants, idempotency, failure modes, and distributed-system trade-offs. Production Experience * Substantial experience operating and debugging critical systems in production, ideally including on-call and incident response across application, data, and infrastructure boundaries. * Practical experience with observability, reliability engineering, capacity planning, deployment safety, and disaster recovery. * Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, GitOps, and modern production-engineering practices. Judgement and Communication * Practical judgement and common sense, with the ability to evaluate and clearly articulate architectural trade-offs rather than apply technologies or patterns mechanically. * Ability to explain complex systems in simple, precise terms and work effectively across coding, architecture, operations, and cross-team delivery. * Effective use of AI to amplify genuine engineering expertise, with human ownership of design, validation, security, and production outcomes. IMPACT & SCOPE * Direct impact on core banking capabilities shipped to and supported in production fo
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