Senior Engineer - Technical Staff

Savvy Wealth • New York, NY

21h • $175,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Savvy Wealth is a rapidly growing fintech company aiming to modernize the wealth management industry. The current industry is characterized by archaic and inefficient practices, with financial advisors spending a significant amount of time on manual, non-client-facing tasks. Savvy Wealth offers an advisor-centric, digital-first platform that leverages AI-powered software, automated sales and marketing, and seamless back-office workflows to help advisors scale their businesses and focus more on clients. The company has secured substantial funding and is backed by prominent investors. Savvy Wealth has achieved significant growth, surpassing $5.1 billion in AUM in under three years and experiencing over 600% growth in the last 18 months. The company is entering a new phase of expansion, focusing on broadening its product offerings and continuing revenue growth. The Senior Engineer role is crucial in this phase, leading the design and delivery of complex product and platform initiatives, particularly those involving AI and fiduciary advice. This role involves making key decisions about AI integration, reliability, and team capabilities, owning end-to-end project delivery, establishing engineering best practices, and shaping the platform's future.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience.
• You use AI tools aggressively in your daily workflow: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and whatever else is useful. You're consistently ahead of the curve on what's emerging, and you translate that into concrete decisions: what to build with AI, how to build it reliably, and where it's not worth the complexity.
• Track record of leading projects end-to-end with measurable business impact; you've taken ambiguous problems from 0 to production and held the quality bar throughout.
• Strong full-stack or platform engineering depth; we use Rails, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL; comfortable across the stack or with the depth to close gaps fast.
• Strong system design instincts: data models, service boundaries, failure modes, and how systems hold up at scale.
• Strong technical communication: you write clearly, give effective feedback, and collaborate well across functions in a startup environment.

Nice To Haves

• You've built AI-powered features or systems that customers rely on in production: LLM integrations, agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, intelligent automations, or similar. You understand the real design tradeoffs: prompt reliability, latency, cost, failure modes, not just the happy path.
• Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks (RAGAS, LangSmith, custom harnesses) and a systematic approach to measuring reliability.
• Fintech domain knowledge: financial services, wealth management, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations.
• Experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, or retrieval-augmented generation at production scale.
• Modern development ecosystem fluency: macOS toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, IaaS (AWS/GCP), and observability platforms (Datadog, Honeycomb, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex product features and platform systems, from scoping and architecture through production and iteration.
• Establish engineering patterns and standards for the team: how we build, test, observe, and iterate across both product and platform work.
• Apply and champion AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and the rest) to accelerate your own output and raise the team's velocity.
• Drive architectural decisions: data models, service boundaries, system tradeoffs, and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers, give substantive feedback, and be a go-to resource for technical judgment across the team.
• Partner with Product and Design to shape scope and de-risk execution on high-ambiguity problems.
• Work directly with our customers (financial advisors) to understand their workflows and bring that context into how you build.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
• Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
• NYC office in the heart of Manhattan
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office
• Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health), vision related benefits (XP Health), and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care
• Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed