Senior Software Engineer

This role is on site in San Francisco, in the Financial District, five days a week. It is not a remote or hybrid role.

We are helping a venture backed AI software company in San Francisco hire senior software engineers. The company builds agentic AI products for regulated financial services organizations across the US, covering customer conversations, employee tools and the systems behind them. It is already profitable, has real revenue from a large customer base, and is growing its product and engineering teams to keep up with demand.

Engineers here work in person with the engineering leadership, the founders, and the product, design and data teams. Architecture decisions move to production in weeks. The team uses AI development tools as a normal part of daily work. The company is hiring for one or two seats.

What you will do

• Lead the design and build of scalable, observable and maintainable platform services that power the company's agentic AI products.

• Own technical decisions end to end for your service: architecture, APIs, data models, performance and security.

• Deliver reliable systems under real limits on latency, reliability, cost and scale, in a regulated industry where accuracy and compliance matter.

• Take large language model and agent capabilities from design to production. This is applied AI engineering, not research.

• Build and extend backend systems in TypeScript and Python, and shape front end experiences in JavaScript and React.

• Work through hard distributed systems problems such as state, consistency, latency and cost, not only orchestration on top of existing services.

• Help set engineering standards for code review, testing, deployment and incident response.

• Use AI coding tools every day to raise your own speed and quality, and help the team do the same.

• Work in the office alongside product, design, data and company leadership to turn product bets into shipped systems.

What you need

• 3 to 6 years of software engineering experience at a senior level.

• A record of leading a production platform or core service end to end and making its architecture calls. You can walk through the decisions and tradeoffs, not only the features you shipped.

• Strong system design and architecture review skills, with current hands on coding.

• Large language model or agent features you shipped to production users in a recent role. Internal tools, side projects and generic retrieval demos do not count for this search.

• TypeScript and Node or Python as your main production language in recent roles. React is a plus.

• At least one year of recent experience at a Series A through Series D startup. Earlier time at a large tech company is fine.

• A degree in computer science or a related science, technology, engineering or math field.

• Daily, deep use of frontier AI tools in your own workflow, and examples of how you use them.

• You can work on site in San Francisco five days a week.

Nice to have

• Time as a technical founder or founding engineer at a startup that shipped.

• Experience with conversational AI, natural language pipelines or agentic architectures.

• A background in financial services, banking or another regulated industry.

What this search is not

• This search is not for engineers whose main language is Java, Rust or Scala.

• This search is not for profiles that are AI only or backend only. You need both shipped production AI features and ownership of a core service.

• This search is not for staff level profiles with 10 or more years of experience, or for histories with several short stints.

Location

• On site in the San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, California, five days a week.

• Visa transfers can be considered.

• Full time, direct hire role. Equity is part of the offer.

How to apply

Apply through this posting, or book a time with our team at calendly.com/risehire/30min. We accept applications on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.

Rise Talent Advisors is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of all backgrounds.