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Farsight · 1 year ago

Senior Software Engineer

New York City, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $200K/yr

4+ years exp

Farsight AI is the agentic AI platform for financial services, aiming to revolutionize how financial institutions operate by automating workflows. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying scalable software solutions while also engaging with customer feedback and prioritizing tasks in a collaborative environment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Financial ServicesSoftware

Responsibilities

You will have full ownership of projects that you will have to design, implement, and deploy at scale in a highly fluid and fast-paced startup environment

While you will have to create clean, efficient, and ready-for-change software, you will also have to listen to customer feedback, prioritize work streams, and gauge quality of outputs with a critical lens

On the software side specifically, your work will range from longer-term research projects to bug fixes alike - all of which crucial to our company’s success

Farsight is a highly collaborative environment where you and your highly motivated, passionate team members will continuously be working together to create new technology and applications that deliver the robust, accurate, market-changing solutions that our customers have come to expect

Qualification

Full-stack developmentTypescriptPythonAWSGenerative AIScalable system designPerformance optimizationUI / UX designCustomer feedbackLeadership experienceCollaborationSelf-motivation

Required

4+ years of full-time software engineering experience

Deep knowledge and experience with building full-stack, user-friendly applications ready for scale

Experience with Typescript, Python, and cloud-based infrastructure like AWS

Strong interest in learning and understanding generative AI technology and the current, rapidly evolving landscape

Experience working in unstructured environments, where you took full autonomy in delivering projects from conception to deployment

You are intrinsically motivated and self-critical of your work, two aspects that are important for rapid innovation on a lean team

Are able to effectively communicate with and collaborate with a growing team

Bring a positive and fun attitude to the workplace!

Preferred

Former early engineer or founder at a fast-growing startup

Previous AI research and/or interactions with AI systems, including utilizing closed-source models, fine-tuning and spinning up open-sourced models, etc

Deep understanding of scalable system design, performance optimization, and resilience engineering

Extensive front-end experience in tandem with some experience in UI / UX design work

Previous experience interacting with customers and receiving customer feedback

Have leadership experience in a technical position