Senior Software Engineer, Finance Technology (Forward Deployed)

Vista Equity Partners Management•Austin, TX

2d•$95,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

Vista Equity Partners is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to serve as the forward deployed engineer for the firm's Finance organization. This individual contributor role, at the Associate level, sits on Enterprise AI & Automation and reports to the Director, AI Solutions Engineering, while working day to day with the Finance Technology team. The engineer learns Finance workflows, identifies problems worth solving, and ships production software on Vista's AI platform. The work ranges from treasury and financial-close tooling to AI experiences over curated finance data. The engineer also partners with technologists in Finance to help ensure department-built solutions meet platform standards and are production-ready. The team primarily uses TypeScript, Node.js, and React on Azure, and uses modern AI tooling throughout the development workflow. The role may be fully remote within the US or based in the Austin office.

Requirements

At least 6 years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated scope.
Production experience with TypeScript and Node.js, including designing and operating APIs.
Track record of owning software in production after launch, including support, defects, and iteration.
Strong SQL skills and experience building on a cloud data warehouse; Snowflake is preferred. Includes experience with access controls and data quality checks.
Cloud-native delivery experience on a major cloud platform, preferably Azure, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, identity, and observability.
Established AI-native engineering practice, using AI coding tools beyond autocomplete to ship production software.
Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Working familiarity with private equity finance, such as fund structures, capital calls and distributions, management fees and carried interest, fund accounting, and investor reporting; deep expertise is not required.
Ability to learn finance workflows quickly and communicate with accountants, controllers, and treasury teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining technical tradeoffs to finance leaders.
Enjoys working inside a business team, listening and learning before earning trust through delivery.
Product mindset, with experience taking a product or feature set from zero to adoption and understanding the business reasons behind the code.
Experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders on requirements, tradeoffs, and rollouts.
Collaborative mindset, including the ability to improve technical colleagues' work through review and pairing.
Comfort with ambiguity, change, and a high degree of autonomy.

Nice To Haves

Experience in private equity, fund administration, or financial services technology.
Forward deployed, solutions engineering, or other customer-embedded engineering experience.
Experience with fund accounting, treasury, or ERP systems and their APIs.
Hands-on experience building generative AI applications, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and evaluating answer quality.
Experience supporting or governing citizen developer or low-code populations.
React or Terraform experience.
Experience with agent frameworks or Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Responsibilities

Embed with Finance, learn workflows across areas such as fund accounting, treasury, tax, and financial close, and build trust with finance stakeholders.
Turn loosely defined finance problems into product requirements and design documents, and break the work into deliverable pieces.
Design, build, and operate finance applications, automations, and AI experiences end to end on Vista's platform, integrating systems such as Snowflake, SharePoint, and Smartsheet.
Partner with Finance Technology department technologists by sharing platform capabilities and patterns, reviewing code and designs, pairing on difficult problems, and helping work align with platform standards.
Bring useful finance apps built by business users, such as apps in Replit, onto Vista's enterprise platform and bring them up to security, SDLC, and operational standards.
Lead user testing, rollouts, and go-lives with finance owners, managing scope, tradeoffs, status, and adoption.
Own shipped software, including releases, defects, and ongoing iteration, while meeting the accuracy, auditability, and data-security needs of financial workflows.
Bring Finance's needs to Enterprise AI & Automation, flagging platform gaps and reusable patterns with a recommendation.
Use modern AI tooling throughout delivery while maintaining a high bar for code review and quality.
Participate in the on-call rotation for production applications and platform services.