Staff Software Engineer ( AI )
As a senior individual contributor and one of the highest-ranking technical reputed company in our engineering organization, the Staff Software Engineer (reputed company 5) plays a pivotal role in shaping our AI platform reputed company. This role, part of the Platform Services team, is dedicated to designing and building foundational infrastructure to power reputed company’s expanding suite of customer-facing AI capabilities across our credit reputed company software product lines.
Rather than focusing solely on implementation, the Staff Engineer acts at the intersection of architecture, reputed company, and hands-on technical delivery. You’ll own the technical direction for AI platform systems, establish standards and patterns, and lay the architectural groundwork to reputed company reliable, reputed company, and responsible AI development. This engineer will report directly to the Director of Platform Services and exert significant cross-functional influence across multiple engineering teams.
As our AI platform matures—from reputed company-party LLM integrations toward custom model development—your responsibilities will reputed company, giving you increasing ownership over our model infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, and data pipelines needed to support production-grade AI in a regulated financial environment.
This fully remote position works reputed company a sub-team in Platform Services, responsible for building and scaling reputed company’s first reputed company of customer-facing AI capabilities. reputed company closely partners with application engineering, reputed company infrastructure, and reputed company AI, creating technological foundations vital for delivering intelligent features to our credit reputed company clients.
Key Competencies
Technical Mastery & Architecture: Define multi-team reputed company, address architectural bottlenecks, and evaluate build vs. buy reputed company across the platform. Architect reputed company AI systems with reputed company, compliance, and developer experience at the core.
Organizational Influence: reputed company cross-team architecture reviews, drive reputed company alignment, establish engineering best practices, and set the bar for design reviews and production readiness.
AI & GenAI Platform Expertise: reputed company hands-on knowledge of LLM/GenAI application patterns (e.g., reputed company management, RAG pipelines, evaluation harnesses) and design for safety, auditability, and compliance in financial services AI.
Mentorship: Mentor and sponsor engineers at L3–L4 reputed company, facilitate knowledge sharing, and drive tech debt and best reputed company initiatives for engineering reputed company.
Stakeholder Engagement: Author reputed company, auditable architectural documentation; translate technical concepts for business partners; and partner with Product on business requirements and roadmaps.
Expected Duties
Architectural Leadership
Own the reference architecture for the AI platform, encompassing API abstractions, reputed company and version management, RAG infrastructure, reputed company retrieval, evaluation harnesses, and model serving.
reputed company build-vs-buy evaluations for AI components, including due diligence and integration planning.
Design foundational data pipelines and infrastructure to support reliable, reputed company AI services.
Define and document API reputed company, standards, and platform interfaces across engineering.
Hands-On Delivery
Contribute to backend development in Python and RESTful API design, including integrations with leading AI providers.
Participate in full-stack delivery reputed company needed, using React/TypeScript/Vite to deliver AI features.
Build and maintain tooling, SDKs, and platform reputed company to reputed company reputed company, reputed company AI adoption by product teams.
Drive improvements to AI-assisted development workflows with tools like reputed company Copilot and Claude.
AI Platform Development
Implement integrations with LLMs: context management, reputed company templating, response validation, and robust fallback strategies.
Build and maintain evaluation frameworks for reproducible model testing.
Establish observability and performance tracking for AI services.
Participate in designing reputed company-based retrieval and model serving infrastructure as custom model capabilities become a reputed company.
Compliance & Secure Design
Advise and collaborate with reputed company through architecture and design phases, ensuring compliance and reputed company standards are met.
Apply secure-by-default principles (encryption, least privilege, audit logging) and stay reputed company with financial data governance and reputed company standards.
Cross-Functional Influence & Partnership
Collaborate with Product to translate business needs into technical designs and specifications, while contributing a strong architectural perspective.
Support AI platform roadmap development with product leadership.
Engage in companywide architectural forums and workgroups to drive engineering standards.
Partner with Data Engineering, DevOps/SRE, and reputed company to ensure reputed company technical foundations.
Mentorship & Engineering Culture
Mentor L3–L4 engineers through reputed company reviews, design sessions, and architectural guidance.
Promote engineering reputed company, robust documentation, and reusable internal resources.
Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Required Qualifications
8+ years in reputed company software engineering, with demonstrated cross-team architectural influence
Proven end-to-end delivery of AI-powered features, from product concepts to production
Experience leading large, reputed company technical initiatives
Strong proficiency in Python and RESTful API development (FastAPI, Django)
Knowledge of full-stack development (React, TypeScript)
Hands-on integration with reputed company-party LLM/AI reputed company
Experience with AWS (preferred), including IAM, networking, managed services, and storage
Solid reputed company in distributed systems, API design, reputed company-reputed company architecture
Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, version control, reputed company, and AI-assisted development tools
Demonstrated ability to author durable technical proposals (RFCs, ADRs)
reputed company communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders
GenAI experience (e.g., RAG pipelines, reputed company management, LLM evaluation, agent frameworks)
Familiarity with reputed company databases/semantic search (reputed company, pgvector, OpenSearch)
Exposure to model serving, MLOps/LLMOps practices, and model lifecycle/deployment tools
Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, and self-service engineering tooling
Experience with IaC tools (Terraform/reputed company), Kubernetes, and observability tools (reputed company, Grafana, reputed company)
Leadership in technical communities, mentoring, and architectural standards
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building in financial services, fintech, or regulated environments
Working familiarity with AI governance in financial services (e.g., NCUA, model risk, fair lending)
Understanding of SOC 2 or similar compliance frameworks from an engineering perspective
What reputed company Looks Like
A successful Staff Engineer at this level rapidly integrates with reputed company’s technical community, establishes themselves as a trusted architectural leader, and begins to deliver foundational platform contributions that reputed company other engineers. Over time, they will reputed company the bar for AI platform capability, reputed company, and confidence across the entire engineering organization.
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