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Senior / Staff Product Engineer - AI

Career Renew
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/29/2026
Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Senior / Staff Product Engineer - AI - this is a hybrid role in San Francisco. Salary range: 185-213K USD yearly plus benefits plus equity.
 
We are the leading AI Agents platform for financial services. Regulated banks and fintechs — including those overseen by the OCC, FDIC, and SEC — trust Bretton AI to automate mission-critical work like KYC, AML, and sanctions compliance. We are trusted by compliance teams at Ramp, Mercury, Coastal Community Bank, Grasshopper Bank, Gusto, Betterment and more.
 

We are looking for a Senior or Staff Product Engineer with 5 years of experience to join us and build customer-facing AI-powered products that automate financial crime compliance for banks and fintechs. You'll be a full-stack engineer with a strong foundation from top engineering cultures, a track record of building zero-to-one products at startups, and a genuine passion for solving complex problems with real customer impact. This is a high-ownership role where you'll work directly with customers and ship features that process thousands of compliance cases, saving teams significant time and directly driving revenue. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and want to build products that protect the global financial system, this is for you.

What will you be doing?

  • Own substantial product features end-to-end — from customer discovery and requirements gathering through to production deployment and iteration.
  • Build agentic workflows that coordinate AI tools and data services to automate AML, sanctions, and KYC reviews while keeping humans in the loop.
  • Develop intuitive interfaces for case management, reporting, analytics, and workflow configuration for compliance teams.
  • Work directly with enterprise compliance customers to deeply understand their needs and translate complex problems into elegant technical solutions.
  • Ship reliable, production-grade full-stack code across backend services, APIs, databases, and frontend using TypeScript, Python, Node.js, and React.
Role responsibilities
• Build net new product surfaces, scale existing products, support enterprise implementations
 
Requirements
 
3 -​ 8 years of experience in product software engineering,​ with Python or TypeScript Node.​js (Mandatory)
Building zero to one products used by real customers (Mandatory)
Experience at a talent-​dense high-​growth startup (Mandatory)
Previous experience in financial services or regulated industries (Nice-to-have)
Strong educational background (Mandatory)
Experience building APIs and working with databases.​ (Mandatory)
Familiarity with workflow orchestration frameworks (Nice-to-have)
Strong product thinking and customer interaction skills (Mandatory)

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