Interface AI
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- You'll set the architectural direction for our core platform, operate as a technical authority across multiple engineering workstreams, and work in close partnership with our VP of Engineering, CTO and Co-Founder Bruce Kim, and CEO Srinivas Njay.
- You won't have a manager hovering over your next decision.
- You'll be making the decisions - and owning the outcomes.
Responsibilities
- The Staff Software Engineer role at interface.ai is for someone who has already proven they can build - and is now ready to define how we build.
- Define and own the technical architecture of interface.ai's platform - multi-modal APIs, real-time event systems, AI orchestration layers, and data infrastructure
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives: decompose ambiguous product bets into engineering roadmaps, mitigate systemic risks before they materialize, and drive resolution when they do
- Deeply embed AI-native development (Claude Code, Cursor) into engineering practice and help your peers build faster with it
- 🤖 Claude Enterprise + frontier AI tools for every employee - build with the best
- The team is small enough that your judgment shapes everything, and the market is large enough that what you build will matter for a long time.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering, with the last several in roles where you set technical direction - not just executed it
- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and Python
- comfort working across the stack when the problem demands it
- Deep domain experience in fintech, payments, core banking, or financial data infrastructure
- Experience as a founding or early-stage engineer at a startup that shipped at scale
Nice to have
- BS/BA in Computer Science required
- MS or PhD in CS, AI, or a related field is a meaningful plus
Skills
- Mentor and elevate senior engineers - your job is to make the team around you better, faster, and more autonomous
- Operate in-person, in SF, 5 days a week - influence happens in rooms, on whiteboards, and in code reviews, not async threads
Compensation
- $30k-$300k
Benefits
- 🩺 100% paid health, dental & vision care
- 💰 401(k) & financial wellness perks
- 🚇 Commuter benefit
- 💪 Monthly wellness stipend
- 🌴 Discretionary PTO + paid parental leave
- 🧘 Mental health, wellness & family benefits
- Founding-team-tier equity, top-of-market base, comprehensive benefits, and a modern San Francisco office worth showing up to.
Company info
- Customers are live, revenue is real, and the mission is one you can explain to your family without a slide deck.
- This role has outsized influence on the company's technical trajectory, product velocity, and the careers of the engineers around you.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from Interface AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.