Product Engineer — AI-Native Fintech Platform

Location: New York City NY (Manhattan)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid 3 days in-office per week
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience: 36 years of professional software engineering experience
Industry: Financial Technology AI Enterprise Software

About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a rapidly growing venture-backed financial technology company that is transforming how businesses manage complex financial and operational workflows through software and artificial intelligence.

Backed by prominent institutional investors and experiencing significant commercial growth the company is expanding its engineering organization to accelerate the development of an AI-native platform.

Unlike traditional financial services businesses that rely heavily on manual processes spreadsheets documents and fragmented systems this company is building intelligent software that automates these operations at scale.

Were seeking an exceptional Product Engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with product intuition technical ownership and a passion for solving complex real-world problems.

This is an opportunity to join a small highly capable engineering team where individual contributions directly influence the product customer experience and companys growth.

What Youll Be Building

Youll work closely with product leaders and business stakeholders to understand operational challenges and translate them into scalable production-ready software.

Your responsibilities will include:

• End-to-End Product Development: Own features from initial discovery and technical design through backend implementation frontend development testing and deployment.

• AI-Powered Automation: Build intelligent workflows using LLMs and agentic systems to automate complex traditionally manual business processes.

• Full-Stack Engineering: Develop modern user interfaces APIs backend services and data models that power business-critical applications.

• Workflow & Document Automation: Build capabilities involving document ingestion PDF generation data extraction approvals and third-party API integrations.

• Business Collaboration: Partner directly with operational stakeholders to understand their challenges identify automation opportunities and develop practical solutions.

• Platform Capabilities: Create reusable tools and services that allow business teams to automate and manage their own workflows.

• Engineering Excellence: Write clean reliable maintainable code while contributing to architecture code reviews testing and system reliability.

• Product Strategy: Collaborate with product managers and engineering leadership on feature prioritization technical tradeoffs and roadmap planning.

The role is approximately 60% hands-on coding 20% collaboration with business users and 20% product planning and technical decision-making.

What Were Looking For

Software Engineering Excellence

• 36 years of full-time post-graduation professional software engineering experience.

• Experience working in a high-performing engineering organization with rigorous technical standards strong code reviews and established engineering practices.

• Strong computer science fundamentals problem-solving abilities and architectural judgment.

• Proven experience developing and shipping production software used by real customers or business teams.

• Experience owning substantial features across backend systems databases APIs and user interfaces.

• A track record of writing maintainable production-quality software and delivering meaningful technical impact.

Product Engineering & Ownership

• Comfortable taking ownership of features from business requirements through production deployment.

• Experience collaborating with product managers customers or non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong product instincts and the ability to translate ambiguous problems into practical technical solutions.

• Ability to balance engineering quality development speed and user needs.

• A hands-on mindset and genuine enthusiasm for building products rather than focusing exclusively on architecture or infrastructure.

AI & Modern Development Practices

• Experience developing and shipping production features powered by LLMs generative AI or agentic workflows.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code Cursor or GitHub Copilot.

• Strong judgment around reviewing AI-generated code and understanding where human oversight is critical.

• An understanding of reliability security data integrity and testing considerations when integrating AI into production applications.

Technology Stack

The engineering team works across a modern full-stack technology environment:

Frontend

• React TypeScript

Backend

• NestJS Python GraphQL

Databases & Architecture

• PostgreSQL Kafka event-driven architecture CQRS

Infrastructure

• Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes GitHub

Artificial Intelligence

• Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Agentic workflows

• AI-powered automation

• AI-assisted software development

Important: Experience with every technology listed is not required. Strong software engineering fundamentals adaptability and the ability to learn new technologies are valued more highly than an exact stack match.

What Makes You a Great Fit

Youll thrive in this role if you:

• Have developed your engineering skills in an environment known for high technical standards.

• Enjoy building products that solve meaningful business problems.

• Are comfortable working across the full stack rather than specializing exclusively in one layer.

• Have experience delivering production AI-powered functionality.

• Take pride in writing excellent code and understanding the systems you build.

• Enjoy collaborating directly with business users to understand their workflows.

• Want meaningful product ownership within an established growing engineering team.

• Are excited about joining a smaller organization where your work has visible impact.

• Value technical excellence thoughtful collaboration and continuous improvement.

Prior financial services experience is advantageous but not required .

Why Consider This Opportunity

Meaningful Engineering Ownership

Work on substantial product features from concept to production with direct influence over technical decisions and the user experience.

Real-World AI Applications

Build AI-driven capabilities that automate complex business workflows and deliver measurable operational value.

Strong Engineering Culture

Collaborate with experienced engineers who emphasize software quality technical rigor thoughtful design and continuous learning.

Established Business Traction

Join a well-funded company with an existing customer base recurring revenue and significant growth potential.

Small Team High Impact

Become part of a growing engineering organization where individual engineers have substantial ownership and visibility.

Competitive Compensation

• Equity participation.

• Medical dental and vision insurance.

• Unlimited paid time off.

• Hybrid work environment in Manhattan.

Interview Process

1. Engineering Leadership Interview (45 minutes): Discuss your engineering background product experience and approach to AI-assisted development.

2. Technical Interview (60 minutes): Review and evaluate production-style code identifying opportunities to improve correctness security reliability and maintainability.

3. System Design Interview (60 minutes): Design a scalable software solution based on a realistic business scenario.

4. Product Engineering Interview: Discuss product judgment user needs technical tradeoffs and problem-solving approaches.

5. Final Leadership Interview: Meet senior company leadership to discuss team alignment and long-term career goals.

Additional Information

• This is a hybrid position based in Manhattan New York City.

• Candidates must be comfortable working in-office three days per week with the possibility of increasing office attendance in the future.

• Relocation assistance may be considered for exceptional candidates.

• Employer visa sponsorship is not available.

• Compensation may be flexible for exceptionally qualified individuals.

Interested

If youre a strong software engineer who enjoys building real products solving complex business problems and applying AI to meaningful production use cases wed love to connect.

This is an opportunity to join a growing fintech company where engineering excellence product ownership and business impact come together.