Senior Software Engineer

Farsight AI•New York City, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Farsight operates at the cutting-edge of AI to deliver human-like work within some of the world’s largest, and most critical, financial organizations. We have an extensive backlog from customer demand along with immense opportunities for product innovation. As such, we require someone that will not only ship features but will also move the ball forward towards a unified and expansive platform offering. 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.

Requirements

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
Intrinsically motivated and self-critical of your work
Able to effectively communicate with and collaborate with a growing team
Bring a positive and fun attitude to the workplace!

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and deploy projects at scale in a highly fluid and fast-paced startup environment.
Create clean, efficient, and ready-for-change software.
Listen to customer feedback, prioritize work streams, and gauge quality of outputs with a critical lens.
Engage in longer-term research projects and bug fixes.
Collaborate with team members to create new technology and applications.