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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - **Company:** David Joseph & Company - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $220,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Backend, Build Management, Stripe, Integration Frameworks, Front End Software Development, Virtual Agents, Databricks - **Published:** July 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1abcc0268e659482 ## About the Role * 5+ years backend or infrastructure engineering * Seed-to-Series B startup OR high-growth company (Rubrik, Databricks, Ramp, Brex) OR top large-tech (Meta, Google, Stripe, LinkedIn) * Hard backend systems: distributed pipelines, ledger/transactional systems, integration platforms, or workflow engines * Resume showing architecture detail and clear personal ownership * NYC in-person * Fintech, ERP, or accounting-software background a strong plus * Startup hours, 6 days a week, 9am to 7pm or 8pm Green Flags * Startup or high-growth pedigree with real ownership * Hard backend systems builder * Domain depth in finance, fintech, or enterprise integrations * Production AI agent experience Red Flags * Frontend-heavy background with shallow backend depth * Resume lists technologies without depth or ownership evidence * Multiple short stints (more than one role under one year) ## Description A high-ownership engineering seat where each senior engineer takes full responsibility for a finance domain - from the LLM pipeline and infrastructure through to the customer-facing surface - working directly with controllers, accountants, and CFOs to understand the problem before building the system. No PM writing specs, no architecture committee. The work sits at the frontier of hard backend problems: building AI agents that finance teams and auditors can trust, turning messy enterprise integrations into a unified source of truth, and orchestrating durable, replay-safe workflows across flaky stateful systems. What you'll be doing * Own a finance domain end-to-end (revenue, cash, close, reporting, payroll, fixed assets, tax, or controls) and ship it with a pod of two to three engineers * Design and build AI agents that reason across fragmented financial data, with verification, guardrails, observability, and evaluation systems for non-deterministic outputs * Ingest, normalize, and reconcile data from ERPs, banks, payroll platforms, billing systems, CRMs, and email into a unified financial context layer * Ship idempotent, audit-ready write-backs to systems of record with full traceability * Sit directly with controllers and finance teams to learn workflows, then translate that understanding into shipped software * Operate AI coding agents fluently as a daily part of the engineering workflow Tech stack: Python (backend engineering also in modern languages such as Go, Java, or Rust) ## Related Videos - [Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100362-navigating-growth-scaling-challenges-and-office-expansions-with-david-singleton-cto-at-stripe) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Throwing off the burdens of scale in engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/608-throwing-off-the-burdens-of-scale-in-engineering) - [Coffee with Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/354-coffee-with-developers) - [From A2A to MCP: How AI’s “Brains” are Connecting to “Arms and Legs”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1631-from-a2a-to-mcp-how-ai-s-brains-are-connecting-to-arms-and-legs) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)