Career Mentors, LLC

Career Mentors, LLC

Staff Software Engineer - FinTech Prestigious Startup

San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$185k-$255kDetected 125 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsPostgreSQLAWSCloud PlatformsMachine LearningLeadershipMentoringUnderwriting

About the role

  • We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer (7+ years product-focused engineering) to act as a force multiplier: a holistic technical leader bridging code, people, and business outcomes while mentoring juniors and driving engineering excellence.
  • You will have outsized impact on product, organization, and culture as the company scales.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership to ensure a cohesive, high-quality system; transplant learnings organization-wide.
  • Why Join Our Client Shape the future of banking with AI - help create a new category that automates 90% of manual lending work.
  • Potentially interact directly with customers / customer-facing teams during working sessions to gather requirements and validate that the highly configurable platform meets real needs in regulated lending.

Requirements

  • Lead architectural decisions and own complex, cross-team initiatives - balancing long-term system stability with the high velocity required in a Series A startup.

Skills

  • TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS.
  • Clear, succinct, precise communication.
  • Thrives in fast-paced, high-intensity startup environments.
  • Traits to Avoid Exclusively Big Tech or late-stage (late Series C+) experience.
  • Job hopping (more than two roles under one year).
  • Focused primarily on low-level firmware or foundational model training.
  • Own significant parts of a complex, enterprise-grade system.
  • Mentor juniors and directly influence engineering culture and excellence.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity TopTechTalent.ai believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities.

Compensation

  • $185k-$255k

Benefits

  • Mentor and develop junior engineers; amplify team skills, vision, and best practices.
  • Experience in regulated industries (FinTech, Healthcare, or similar).

Company info

  • Experience mentoring junior engineers and working directly with customers / customer-facing teams.
  • Founded in 2023 by Stanford banking + ML experts.
  • The Role We are hiring a Staff Software

Equal opportunity

  • TopTechTalent.ai believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities.
  • TopTechTalent.ai recruits, hires, trains, promotes, disciplines and provides other conditions of employment without regard to a person's race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, or expression, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, marital status or other classifications protected under law or Company policy.
  • This includes providing reasonable accommodation for team members' disabilities or religious beliefs and practices.
  • The government requires TopTechTalent.ai to maintain information on those who seek employment with the company, including their race and sex.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • tive Banking Platform San Francisco, CA (On-site) $185K – $255K base + competitive equity US citizens preferred (no new H-1B sponsorship; case-by-case H-1B transfers possible) About Our Client Our Client is building AGI

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