Senior Software Engineer, Seed

Recruiting From Scratch•Los Angeles, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Our client is an AI platform designed for accounting firms, providing them with a team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate this platform to delegate core workflows and automate time-consuming, manual tasks. The company recently secured a multi-fold oversubscribed seed round from top VCs and is already being utilized by several leading, large accounting firms in the US. This role involves building sophisticated software systems around ML models, advancing data architecture for accounting-related concepts, and taking significant ownership within the tech and product domains. The Senior Software Engineer will report directly to the co-founders, lead technical decision-making, help shape the early engineering culture and processes, and serve as a subject matter expert. The position also requires evolving frontend infrastructure and web server design, and contributing to hiring and building out the engineering team, balancing long-term strategic thinking with rapid, iterative shipping.

Requirements

Accounting background: CPA in past life, or spent time working on accounting data/software
Experience: 5-10 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years but strong experience
Autonomy: Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and technical authority
Flexibility: Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
Team-first mentality: interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored
Passion for vision: Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy
Curious about latest AI: Experimented with ChatGPT, etc.
NYC-based: Seeking in-person environment; working from office most days of week
All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our engineering speed

Nice To Haves

Hiring: A knack for spotting and recruiting engineering talent
Data science: Hands-on experience with data science projects
Machine learning: Experience training models or building ML-ops systems
Fintech APIs: Experience with foundational fintech APIs e.g., Quickbooks, Plaid, etc.
Product ownership: Experience owning a product end-to-end

Responsibilities

Build Engineer software systems around sophisticated ML models
Advance data architecture for accounting-related objects/concepts
Take ownership
Report directly to co-founders
Oversee significant parts of our tech and product
Lead technical decision making on accounting specific features and abstractions, as well as integrations with existing accounting tools
Set culture and practice
Shape our early engineering culture and processes
Serve as source of subject matter expertise for rest of engineering team
Evolve our approach on frontend infrastructure, web server design, abstractions, etc.
Help hire and build out the rest of the early engineering team
Balance long-term thinking and smart abstractions with shipping fast and iteratively