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We are looking for a Chief Software Engineer to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform that brings chat, reporting, and bespoke interfaces into sophisticated investment workflows. You will lead hands-on delivery in a small, highly capable team, shaping product direction while iterating quickly with business users.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of an AI-powered financial assistant from design through production rollout
- Define system designs that balance quality, latency, reliability, and cost for AI features
- Build backend services and APIs in Python using FastAPI to support chat and reporting workflows
- Implement AI evaluation and quality engineering with automated tests, regression suites, and monitoring
- Establish security controls for AI applications including privacy, access control, auditability, and safe handling of sensitive data
- Validate and harden AI behavior in production through failure analysis and iterative improvements
- Collaborate directly with business users to gather requirements, refine UX, and ship rapid iterations
- Review, test, and verify AI-generated code using Gen AI assisted development and coding agents
- Create guardrails against prompt-injection and other AI-specific risks within production constraints
- Improve reliability and maintainability through disciplined engineering practices and clear interfaces
- Contribute to a startup-style environment with lightweight process and high accountability
- Partner with other senior engineers to align technical decisions and deliver cohesive platform outcomes
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with Python or comparable languages
- Strong leadership ability to drive technical direction in a small senior team
- Strong ownership mindset to take loosely defined problems from discovery to production
- Expert system design skills including edge cases, trade-offs, and scalable architectures
- Advanced Python skills including API and service development
- Strong FastAPI experience or deep experience with comparable Python web frameworks
- Strong AI engineering skills with Large Language Models (LLM) and Gen AI Assisted Development
- Strong AI evaluation skills including automated evals, test datasets, regression testing, and failure analysis
- Strong AI security knowledge including data privacy, access controls, prompt-injection risks, and guardrails
- Strong quality engineering mindset focused on reliability, maintainability, and monitoring in production
- Strong performance optimization skills across latency, cost, and throughput for AI applications
- High autonomy and self-governance with minimal process and high trust
- Advanced English proficiency (C1, Advanced)
- Flexibility to collaborate across US, LatAm, and CET time zones
- Willingness to learn and adopt new technologies rapidly as the AI ecosystem evolves
Nice to have
- Amazon Web Services experience
- Kubernetes experience
- Terraform experience
- ReactJS or Next.js experience with TypeScript/JavaScript
- Node.js experience