Chief Engineer

We are looking for a senior individual contributor to lead a core engineering domain at a fintech company building AI-powered banking experiences. You will set technical direction while remaining hands-on and help deliver systems that support the companys most important products.

• Own the architecture engineering standards and outcomes for a core technical domain.
• Design and build production systems alongside engineers contributing code and setting a high technical bar.
• Partner with founders and product leadership to connect technical decisions with measurable business outcomes.
• Guide engineers and technical leads across your domain while continuing to work as an individual contributor.
• Review work and support quality reliability and delivery across engineering teams.
• Promote AI-native development practices using frontier models and tools.
• Build systems across AI runtimes agents contact center experiences integrations data platforms and consumer banking.

• 8 to 15 years of engineering experience including senior individual contributor leadership at Principal Distinguished Staff or Chief Engineer level.
• Strong system design architecture review and hands-on coding skills with experience taking products from 0 to 1 and owning core systems in production at scale.
• Daily deep use of frontier AI models and development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Engineering fundamentals ideally including React and Python.
• Experience at growth-stage startups and large technology companies; a technical founder or founding engineer background is a plus.
• Background in conversational AI voice AI agentic systems fintech banking or regulated financial services is valued.
• A bachelors degree in computer science or a related STEM field.

Base salary: $335000 to $375000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site five days a week in San Francisco California.