Senior Software Engineer

This role is hybrid, with three days a week in the office in the San Francisco Financial District, usually Monday through Wednesday.

We are helping a fast growing, venture backed AI company hire senior software engineers for its San Francisco office. The company builds an AI platform for finance professionals that turns large sets of unstructured deal documents into auditable analysis and finished written work, so investment and lending teams can evaluate deals faster. Revenue is growing faster than the engineering team, and engineering hiring is the company's top priority.

The engineering team is small, senior and flat. Engineers are generalists who own large product areas end to end and work directly with customers, sales, customer success and product. The team builds with AI agents for nearly all of its coding and code review, and still writes and reviews technical design docs by hand. The company is hiring for two or three seats.

What you will do

• Own a major product area end to end, such as one of the platform's AI agents, and drive its roadmap with customers and the product manager.

• Ship across the full stack: front end, back end and database migrations.

• Use AI agents to write and review your code day to day, and keep the quality bar high while moving fast.

• Write and review technical design docs, which take about 10 to 20 percent of your time.

• Build features that use large language models, retrieval and agents to turn dense documents into reliable, auditable output.

• Talk with finance professionals who use the product, understand how they work, and turn what they need into product.

• Work with staff engineers to improve your area, then take on more of the codebase over time.

• Help shape how a small team grows, including its practices for design, review and shipping.

What you need

• 4 to 6 years as a full stack or senior software engineer at startups from seed stage through Series E.

• Engineering experience at top tier technology companies or startups with a strong engineering culture.

• Full stack experience across front end, back end and database migrations. Pure front end or pure back end engineers are not a fit.

• An AI native workflow. You use AI agents to write and review your code today, not only autocomplete, and you can walk through a project where you did this.

• Experience building applications or harnesses with large language models, retrieval or agents, even in personal projects.

• A degree in computer science or an engineering field such as computer, electrical or mechanical engineering. Bootcamp only backgrounds are not a fit.

• A standout part of your background, such as a top startup, a strong engineering culture company, a founder stint or a top school.

• Steady career growth, including at least one stint of three or more years with a promotion.

• Comfort working directly with non technical customers, and a clear reason for wanting to join an early stage startup.

• US citizenship or permanent residency. This role cannot support visa sponsorship or transfers.

• You live in or will be based in San Francisco and can be in the office three days a week.

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript, Next.js, Python and AWS.

• Hands on use of open source agent frameworks.

What this search is not

• This search is not for engineers who have stayed at the same level for several years without moving toward staff scope.

• This search is not for histories with several short stints.

Location

• Hybrid in the San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, California.

• Three days a week in the office, usually Monday through Wednesday.

• 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.