Software Engineer
Software Engineer
New York City, New York, USA - Permanent
Job Description
Our client is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate the product directly into their accounting software (SAGE, Quickbooks, etc), delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.
With a $3.6M seed round led by Better Tomorrow Ventures with participation from BoxGroup, Avid Ventures, several top accounting firms, and leaders from the accounting and machine learning communities.
Many businesses in America rely on their accountant for far more than the traditional roles of maintaining books and filing taxes. For many businesses, accountants are among their most trusted advisors, in charge of steering them through both routine planning and unchartered waters.
Unlocking the potential of these emergent abilities requires far more than chatbots bolted onto the side of a product. It requires being a core part of the workflow. This is why we partner with accounting firms across practice areas to build and iterate on solutions that are native to the workflows. The platform is already serving clients across CFO advisory, assurance, client accounting services, bookkeeping, and more.
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
Please Note - This role requires you to be in the office 5x/week in the Flatiron district
Must Have Skills:
•5-10 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years but strong experience
•Computer Science or relevant degree
•Experience with Python, Typescript, ReactJS, NextJS
•Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and technical authority
•Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
•Experimented with ChatGPT, etc
•Demonstrated ability to build and rebuild production systems to deliver new product capabilities and handle increasing scale.
•Ability to work on either frontend or backend aspects of the project, with some flexibility to move across the stack.
•Experience with AWS or other cloud environment flexibility to move across the stack.
•Experience with at least one of: Postgres, Snowflake or Elasticsearch
Nice to Have Skills:
•Demonstrated passion for startups or early-stage companies.
•Financial services experience.
•Experience with UI/UX and product design