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Senior Software Engineer

Monstro
Location
New York City — Onsite
Posted
2 months ago
Department
Engineering
Salary
$194,000 - $235,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production software systems using AI development tools
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience with a demonstrated track record contributing to best practices application architecture
  • Python expertise — async services, type-safe code, and systems that scale
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals: event-driven architectures, message queues, job state machines, and worker patterns
  • Relational database fluency and an instinct for data modeling
  • Full-stack range — you can build product-quality React/TypeScript UIs when the problem calls for it
Nice to have
  • Hands-on experience with AI/ML systems — agent architectures, LLM integration, model evaluation, or AI pipelines in production
  • Experience designing multi-agent systems, agentic workflows, or AI orchestration layers
  • Data engineering experience developing data pipelines handling big data
  • Experience contributing to cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code
  • Background in quantitative finance, financial planning, or wealth management technology
What the job really is

As a Senior Software Engineer at Monstro, you will architect and develop AI systems that provide financial advice to clients. Your role involves building reliable and auditable AI-driven applications, designing modeling systems, and ensuring compliance within a regulated industry. You will work closely with domain experts and contribute to both backend and full-stack development, while driving technical decisions and establishing best practices in AI system development.

Benefits
  • Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Catered meals
Things to weigh
  • Onsite work required in New York City four days a week
  • Final compensation depends on various factors including experience and market conditions, with a stated range of $194,000 - $235,000
  • The role involves working in a high-stakes industry where mistakes can have serious consequences
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