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Job Description: Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Banking Platforms
Location: NYC - hybrid, 3 days in the office
The opportunity:
  • A small senior team is building a new financial platform for large institutions. The product uses AI where it helps. It also handles money, so accuracy comes first.
  • The team moves with startup speed and autonomy. An established parent organization provides enterprise resources and stability. You get real ownership and the resources to do the job well.
  • What you build
  • Services that hold accounts, record transactions and move money
  • Workflows that run reliably and recover from failure
  • Controls that enforce regulatory rulesAPIs, events and data contracts that other teams trust
  • Monitoring, alerting and recovery for the services you run
  • How you work
  • You own your services from design to production, including on-call
  • You choose the simplest design that meets today’s need and holds up later
  • You use AI tools and agent workflows where they improve results
  • You mentor engineers and share what you learn
  • What you bring5 to 15 years of software engineering experience
  • Production experience building distributed systems in a compiled language such as Go, Java, Kotlin or Rust
  • Experience with message streaming, such as Kafka or similar
  • Clear reasoning about concurrency, data consistency, retries and partial failure
  • A record of running critical systems in production: incidents, monitoring, rollbacks and recovery
  • Comfort with automated testing and modern deployment practice
  • Daily use of AI tools, with you accountable for the design, testing and security of what ships
Why join:
  • Your work runs at large financial institutions
  • A small, senior team with high autonomy and accountability
  • Systems where quality matters and your impact is visible
  • Startup pace with the stability of a larger organization
  • Sound like a fit? I'd love to hear from you.

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