Senior Software Engineer, Seed

About Our Client

Our client is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate our client as part of their team, delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.

We recently closed a multi-fold oversubscribed - and yet unannounced - seed round backed by top VCs. Our client is already in use at several leading, large accounting firms in the US.

Location

NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.

Your role

• Build
• Engineer software systems around sophisticated ML models
• Advance data architecture for accounting-related objects/concepts
• Take ownership
• Report directly to co-founders
• Oversee significant parts of our tech and product
• Lead technical decision making on accounting specific features and abstractions, as well as integrations with existing accounting tools
• Set culture and practice
• Shape our early engineering culture and processes
• Serve as source of subject matter expertise for rest of engineering team
• Evolve our approach on frontend infrastructure, web server design, abstractions, etc.
• Wear multiple hats
• Help hire and build out the rest of the early engineering team - there will be no shortage of responsibility
• Balance long-term thinking and smart abstractions with shipping fast and iteratively

Are you the one?

We are in particular looking for engineers who either were accountants in their previous career and/or have experience working with accounting data. We are open to a variety of backgrounds.

Essentials

• Accounting background: CPA in past life, or spent time working on accounting data/software
• Experience: 5-10 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years but strong experience
• Autonomy: Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and technical authority
• Flexibility: Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
• Team-first mentality: you are interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored
• Passion for vision : Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy
• Curious about latest AI: Experimented with ChatGPT, etc.
• NYC-based: Seeking in-person environment; working from office most days of week
• All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our engineering speed. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously
• A little something extra You know it when you see it

Bonus points

• Hiring : A knack for spotting and recruiting engineering talent
• Data science : Hands-on experience with data science projects
• Machine learning: Experience training models or building ML-ops systems
• Fintech APIs: Experience with foundational fintech APIs e.g., Quickbooks, Plaid, etc.
• Product ownership : Experience owning a product end-to-end

Salary

We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles to fall healthily within the range based on these factors: Salary range: $100,000 - $200,000 annually