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Role: Staff Engineer with Python. Django for Fulltime
Location: SF, CA in-office 4 days/week (Mon-Thu), Fridays remote.
Onsite work required in San Francisco four days a week, with remote work on Fridays.
Interview Process
Initial screening conversation followed by a coding interview on Zoom.
Onsite interviews include system design, product conversation, and AI evaluation.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, Django, Pydantic AI, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Claude Code
Hiring for Senior and Staff Engineers with 4 years of experience.
Roles are purely individual contributor with opportunities for future management.
Responsibilities include full-stack development, focusing on AI-driven projects.
Candidate Requirements
Must have skills: Python, next.js, and a strong AI focus.
Preferred background: High-performance culture, initiative in building or founding projects.
CS degree is mandatory.
Technical Stack
Includes TypeScript, React, Python, Django, Pydantic, Postgres, Google Cloud.
Front-end to back-end work ratio is approximately 30/70.
Ideal Candidate Profile
Demonstrates initiative, has built projects from start to finish.
Experience in high-growth startups preferred over big tech or no-name startups.
Pain Points and Hiring Urgency
Challenges in sourcing high-quality candidates from reputable companies.
Urgency to hire due to plans to expand the engineering team significantly.
Work experience
Experience building products end-to-end or having 0-to-1 ownership of features.
Experience at a VC-Backed startup (Series A - C) OR clear founding/early engineer experience at a early-stage startup.
Prior fintech experience OR strong interest in personal finance, taxes, or money.
Education
CS degree required, preferably from a top CS school.
Hard skills
Strong proficiency in Python and Next.js/React.
Full-stack capability with roughly 70% backend, 30% frontend split.
Heavy personal AI tooling usage (e.g. Claude Code).
Experience in Django, Pydantic AI, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform.
We''re looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer with 4 YOE to join our small, high-performing engineering team. We need a full-stack generalist who is excited to build AI agents at the cutting edge of regulated financial services and own products end-to-end. This is a top priority hire driven by hypergrowth (8x YoY, 1500 clients in 18 months) and the need to expand the team as we build toward a complete financial OS for millionaires.
Responsibilities
Build AI agents end-to-end across the agent runtime, CPA-facing tooling, and client-facing concierge experience
Ship full-stack features (roughly 70% backend, 30% frontend) using Python, Django, Pydantic AI, TypeScript, React, Postgres, and Google Cloud Platform
Build evals, guardrails, and tooling that help the team ship agents faster and more reliably in a regulated financial services context
Work closely with CPAs in a tight validation and feedback loop, incorporating unfiltered critique into every beta
Own projects from start to finish across both internal CPA tools and client-facing products, grounding decisions in business outcomes rather than feature checklists