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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - **Company:** The Meadows LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $148,750 - $215,000 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Quality, Code Review, Cursor, Design of User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Node.Js, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Technical Debt, Backend, Front End Software Development, Claude - **Published:** November 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-software-engineer--b0c8ffb5-b936-44c0-9b76-29262ff05c7d ## About the Role Software Engineering, Higher Education, Software Engineering, Student Financial Services, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), System Operations, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Development, Machine Tool, Engineering Management, * 5+ Years of Experience in Product Engineering + You have experience building and operating production systems at scale. * Ownership + Builder Mindset: You demonstrate High Agency x High Urgency. o You own problems end-to-end. o You make consequential decisions that impact outcomes., * Experience at an Early Stage Startup (Seed, Series A, Series B) * Experience in FinTech (Or Other Regulated Industries) * Experience as a People Manager and/or Technical Lead ## Description As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate core systems across our backend and frontend stack, partnering closely with Product, CX, and Integrations to deliver high-quality software. This role requires strong technical judgment, a high bar for quality, and a desire to take ownership of meaningful product areas from concept through production., AI tooling (e.g. Cursor, Claude, Codex, etc.) is a core part of how our team works and ships code every day. We're looking for a Software Engineer who is excited to use AI as a core part of their workflow. The ideal candidate should have experience building products in a way that AI tooling can efficiently understand context and collaborate with the user. This is a full-time position reporting to Mike, Meadow's Engineering Manager. What You'll Do * You'll lead end-to-end development of product features from design through deployment and ongoing support. * You'll architect and build scalable backend services and APIs (TypeScript/Node.js). * You'll contribute to frontend development using modern frameworks (React preferred). * You'll design systems with reliability, observability, and maintainability in mind. * You'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, CX, and Integrations teams to deliver customer-facing functionality. * You'll participate in code reviews and uphold high standards for code quality and system design. * You'll improve engineering processes, tooling, and documentation to support scale. * You'll help shape technical decisions and engineering culture as we grow., + Decisions: The team trusts your call, as you are usually right. You estimate accurately and credibly, rarely make the same mistake twice, and correct fast when wrong. + Operational Excellence: You make operating our system a top concern. You instrument and document proactively, so things are debuggable and supportable before they break. * Product Sense + Empathy: You keep a steady rhythm of contact with your users, external or internal (IE, CX), across your area: support tickets, integration issues, calls, telemetry. You understand the desired outcomes and surface patterns worth acting on. + Creativity: You form opinions on what to build, not just how. You generate and propose solutions to problems worth solving, including ones beyond their assigned work. + Taste: You judge which options actually move the needle on user outcomes and back them. You help teammates see defects and product-sense gaps, raising the bar around you. * Technical Depth + Design & Architecture: You are trusted to lead engineering design on any project. You understand the why behind the architecture and see second-order effects, including how a component behaves as usage grows, and make calls that are not obvious to others. + Problem Solving: You anticipate the failure modes in your own designs and handle ambiguous, underspecified problems. + Tooling & Verification: You continuously encode your expertise for an agentic context with context files, evals, and patterns that keep generated code correct and on-spec. + Tech Debt: You identify systemic debt across your components. You write the spec/proposal for the whole project, get it prioritized, and lead execution. * AI Fluency + You default to AI-first approaches where appropriate and have built workflows, tooling, or practices that improve output beyond just themselves. + You demonstrate strong judgment about tradeoffs and failure modes by choosing tools intentionally, validating outputs, and building review, testing, or mitigation into the workflow. * Communication & Collaboration + You speak cross-functionally without jargon, making sure non-engineers understand. You balance technical, product, and CX tradeoffs in the moment and drive buy-in from all stakeholders. + You consistently and smoothly partner with Product and Design, and increasingly with CX and other internal customers, folding customer and support realities into your day-to-day work.