Staff Engineer (New York, US)

About

Caddie is hiring on behalf of a venture-backed AI startup building digital workers for financial compliance teams.

Our client builds AI‑powered digital workers that help banks and fintechs automate compliance workflows. Their product investigates alerts, reviews customers and transactions, and generates audit‑ready narratives so compliance teams can move faster with significantly less manual effort.

The founding team has previously built and exited companies, with over $300M in collective value creation. The company has raised $6.2M in seed funding and is scaling the team from 8 to 15. Investors include top‑tier venture firms focused on fintech and AI.

This is a core product engineering role with high ownership and direct exposure to the founders. You’ll ship quickly to production and build software used by leading banks and fintechs.

Compensation

• Base salary: $200,000 – $250,000 USD
• Equity: $600,000 – $1,000,000 USD (equity value)

What You’ll Do

• Own large portions of the product end‑to‑end
• Integrate with external data providers and systems
• Build AI agents that interact with customers and internal workflows
• Ship new features daily using Python
• Make fast, high‑impact technical decisions in an early‑stage environment
• Take calculated risks and iterate quickly
• Work closely with founders on architecture and product direction

What They’re Looking For

• Exceptional proficiency building full‑stack products
• Strong judgment and pragmatism when building in early‑stage companies
• Deep interest in LLMs and rapidly evolving AI capabilities
• Curiosity about customer problems and how to solve them with software
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and agency
• Comfort operating with limited structure and high autonomy

What’s Offered

• Base salary: $200k–$350k USD
• Equity: $600k–$1M USD
• 100% covered Health, Vision, and Dental benefits