Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

$230,000–$250,000 base + bonus + equity New York City Onsite, 5 days

SODA has partnered with a seed-stage FinTech building AI-powered technology for complex fund administration. You'll join a small engineering team where you'll own meaningful product areas, work directly with financial specialists and report to the CTO.

The Opportunity

You'll turn complex financial problems into software used across accounting, reporting, compliance and investor operations.

This is a hands-on Staff role. You'll make architecture decisions, write production code and own projects from an early idea through to customers using them.

The stack includes Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.

What You'll Do

Own core product features from discovery through production

Build backend services and customer-facing product experiences

Develop AI agents and automation for complex financial workflows

Integrate products with banking systems and payment providers

Make architecture decisions across a broad technical stack

Work directly with financial specialists to understand customer problems

Set technical standards while staying hands-on with production code

What You'll Bring:

Essential

Experience owning complex products and technical decisions in startup environments

Strong product engineering skills across backend systems and customer-facing software

Experience building FinTech products or systems handling money, payments or investments

Strong computer science fundamentals and confidence working across technologies

Desirable

Experience building AI-native products used by real customers

Knowledge of asset management, fund administration or complex financial workflows

Experience with Python, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes or similar technologies

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement. The right mindset matters as much as the right CV.

What's In It For You

$200,000–$250,000 base salary, plus bonus and equity

Direct access to the CTO and substantial technical ownership

Build AI products around real financial problems from an early stage

Work alongside domain specialists rather than receiving requirements second-hand

Join a small team where your technical decisions shape the product

Interested?

If you want Staff-level ownership without stepping away from building, this is worth a conversation. You'll have the scope to shape both the software and how a growing engineering team approaches hard financial problems.

Full Time