Staff Software Engineer, AI

Creditly • Pittsburgh, PA

83d • Remote

About The Position

Credit Genie is a mobile-first financial wellness platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial future. We leverage artificial intelligence to provide personalized insights and are building a financial ecosystem by offering tools and services that provide instant access to cash, and building credit. Our goal is to empower every customer to achieve long-term financial stability. Founded in 2019 by Ed Harycki, former Swift Capital Founder (acquired by PayPal in 2017). Backed by Khosla Ventures and led by industry pioneers from companies such as; PayPal, Square, and Cash App, we are well positioned to build the future of inclusive finance through cutting-edge technology and customer-centric solutions. Are you a highly experienced Backend Software Engineer passionate about designing and building the sophisticated, scalable systems that power cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence applications? Play a pivotal role in integrating AI solutions into our core products, driving innovation, and delivering significant business impact. We're looking for engineers to lead the design, development, and deployment of backend systems and APIs that support our AI initiatives. You'll focus on the infrastructure and services required to deploy, monitor, and scale intelligent applications and models that drive decisions across the company.

Requirements

• A Software Engineer with 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong foundations in multiple programming languages (Python, Java, TypeScript, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experienced at designing and implementing distributed, production-grade systems.
• Comfortable with system design, APIs, version control, Infrastructure as Code, and testing.
• Curious, motivated, and eager to expand into AI/ML.
• Collaborative and excited by fast-moving, problem-solving environments.

Nice To Haves

• Prior exposure with Machine Learning and AI concepts, tools, or frameworks (e.g., LLMs, vector databases, specialized model serving).
• Familiarity with Data Engineering or working with large-scale datasets.
• Knowledge of AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Experience with ML development environments like Jupyter Notebooks.
• Contributions to open-source projects, personal AI/ML projects, or participation in hackathons/competitions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of highly available, scalable backend services and APIs that serve and integrate our AI models and applications into production systems.
• Architect and optimize the services and data pipelines essential for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining real-time AI inferencing and retrieval at scale.
• Collaborate with AI and ML Engineers to improve model deployment, monitoring, and experimentation workflows (MLOps/AIOps).
• Drive technical excellence, setting high standards for code quality, system reliability, and performance.
• Mentor and guide other engineers on best practices for building robust backend systems in an AI-focused environment.
• Have fun working on hard and highly impactful problems.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents on your first day of employment.
• Monthly fitness reimbursement up to $100 or a full membership to LifeTime Fitness.
• 401(k) with a 2.5% match and immediate vesting.
• Meal program for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• Life and accidental insurance.
• Flexible PTO.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees