Principal Software Engineer

Jump•Salt Lake City, UT

2d•$150,000 - $260,000•Remote

About The Position

We’re jumpapp.com ! AI For Financial Advisors If you know Elixir (or would be excited to learn it!) and the following sounds fun to you, please come help us build an awesome product & company! We have an efficient hiring process that takes about a couple of weeks from when you apply to when you receive an offer! Interview Process A 30 minute live coding exercise A paid trial week where you build a feature we really need, attend our morning team meeting and meet team members. Here’s all the stuff engineers want to know All Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView with relatively few dependencies About 30 integrations with a consistent client interface, all based on Tesla (Finch adapter) Consistent patterns across the codebase The latest LiveView and LiveView features Tailwind for styling, default esbuild for js Distributed elixir with libcluster (k8s adapter) Liveview tests, wallaby for e2e tests when js is involved A super powerful and interconnected admin interface so it’s very easy to debug problems and collaborate Great logging and observability with GCP logging, appsignal, Prometheus, grafana, etc Github (rebase merge and squash) One review is required to merge The author has complete responsibility and authority of their code. No gatekeeping. Requires being a good citizen We move extremely fast. Many bug fixes and small features every day. A big feature typically started and shipped in a few days. Automatic staging environments for every PR Seeking founder-minded devs who are self-driven and want to come in, understand the business and customers and take initiative to do the right things Hammox for testing. Only a few mocks for the very boundaries of the app (MockHTTP, MockTime, etc) We do a ton of cutting-edge stuff with LLMs (OpenAI and Anthropic) and have a robust framework for routing prompts to different models and testing new prompts/models. We use prompt caching, JSON mode, function calling, assistants, etc Host our own embeddings with pgvector We do some Rust/Rustler stuff, C/NIF stuff We use the adapter pattern a lot. It’s really easy to add new integrations. Absinthe for GraphQL (for mobile apps) All infrastructure is in terraform. Everything. Github, cloudflare, etc. If there’s a provider we use it. We’re hosted on GCP, k8s on GKE, all configured in Terraform. No YML. Postgres 15 on Cloud SQL. One read replica but we can add more easily. SOC 2 with Vanta We’re a small and efficient dev team We’re growing gangbusters. All revenue-backed, super low churn. Raised a $20M series-A a few months ago Jump’s mission is to empower financial advisors and their clients to thrive in the age of AI. Jump’s primary product is an AI assistant helping financial advisors with their client meeting cycle and other workflows. Jump’s product is expanding to include many other advisor workflows, as well as into other finserv verticals. Jump leads its category in market share, customer satisfaction, and analyst rankings, and has grown rapidly. Jump customers include leading independent broker dealers such as LPL, Osaic, Raymond James, and Cetera, and leading RIAs including Focus Financial, Merit, Savant, Allworth, Sanctuary Wealth, Integrated Partners, and more. Jump was launched in 2023 by repeat entrepreneurs and is led by a team with backgrounds from Harvard, Stanford, Google, Snowflake, Bill.com, JPMorgan, Fidelity, Bain, Bain Capital Ventures, Auditboard, Nitrogen, and eMoney. Jump is a Series A company backed by top venture capital firms and industry strategics including Battery, Sorenson, Pelion, and Citi. Jump’s team values are High Velocity, World Class, and Direct + Kind + No Drama. Please consider joining us in our work to transform the client and advisor / rep experience in financial services by delivering cutting edge, practical, compliant AI technology to help those who help safeguard the financial future of everyday people everywhere

Requirements

Candidates should have at least 12 years of software development experience, with a minimum of 5 years in senior or staff-level engineering roles.
Deep expertise in at least one major programming language and ecosystem is essential, along with broad knowledge across multiple languages, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale is required, including understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native patterns.
Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale systems that handle significant traffic, data volumes, or complexity is crucial. This includes expertise in areas such as API design, data modeling, system integration, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
You should be comfortable making architectural trade-offs and articulating the reasoning behind technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential for this role. You must be able to create clear technical documentation, present complex ideas to diverse audiences, and facilitate productive technical discussions.
Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, influencing without direct authority, and building consensus around technical decisions is required.
Workday must overlap by at least 3 hours with Denver, CO, USA
Must be a resident of United States