Senior Software Engineer

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.