Senior Software Engineer, Vault

Our client, early-stage Fintech company in San Francisco, are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the team remotely . The successful candidate will become the founding engineer for the company’s Vault product, taking ownership of designing and building the systems that connect software with real-world operations, including the automation of asset intake, inventory management and more.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of the Vault technology platform, leading systems and features from architecture and technical design through development, deployment and user experience.

• Design and automate the physical asset intake workflow, covering receiving, scanning, inventory processing, exception management and quality control.

• Build and scale Vault-as-a-Service, including account infrastructure, billing and APIs that enable enterprise partners to programmatically store, manage and ship assets.

• Develop resilient partner integration infrastructure capable of handling malformed data, duplicate submissions, out-of-order events, retries and SLA failures.

• Build and enhance the asset imaging and digitization platform, including image capture, lighting workflows, automated validation and 360-degree digital representations.

• Apply computer vision and AI models to automate quality assurance and detect imaging, labelling and inventory discrepancies before they impact customers.

• Develop AI agents and operational automation to investigate exceptions, identify recurring issues, surface root causes and reduce manual intervention.

• Create scalable tooling and data infrastructure that enables the rapid introduction of new asset classes, including schema creation, information extraction and classification.

• Build MCP servers, AI integrations, and agent-based workflows that make Vault inventory, asset status and event history easier for teams to access and manage.

• Provide technical leadership as the Vault engineering team grows, contributing to architectural decisions, code reviews, engineering standards, documentation and mentorship.

Skillset

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building, shipping and operating production-grade applications.

• Strong backend engineering skills using Python, PostgreSQL, AWS or comparable technologies.

• Strong frontend development experience with React, React Native, JavaScript and/or TypeScript.

• Proven ability to take end-to-end ownership of complex systems, from architecture and technical design through implementation, deployment and user experience.

• Experience designing and building APIs, third-party integrations, event-driven systems, workflow automation and internal operational tooling.

• Strong understanding of system reliability, scalability, SLAs, performance, failure handling and production operations.

• Hands-on experience with AI-enabled engineering and automation, ideally including AI agents, computer vision, MCP servers, connectors or production AI tooling.

• Experience solving engineering challenges that connect software with physical-world operations, such as logistics, fulfilment, imaging, inventory, shipping or asset management.

• Strong product and commercial mindset, with an understanding of how engineering decisions influence customer experience, operational performance and business outcomes.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment, making pragmatic technical decisions and moving quickly while maintaining high standards of reliability.

Benefits

• Salary: $180k – $220k DOE.

• Equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k).

• Remote working.