Software Engineer, Systems (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, CA — requires in-office presence 2-3 days a week

Salary: Software Engineer (Partner 16): $269,000–$314,000; Senior Software Engineer (Partner 18): $301,000–$352,000 per year

hirify.global (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009, with $100B+ under management investing across AI, bio + healthcare, consumer, enterprise, fintech, frontier, games, and American dynamism.

What you will do

• Contribute to and improve the internal developer platform supporting a diverse set of applications
• Build and maintain shared tooling, templates, and internal libraries that accelerate development across the firm's products
• Support observability, monitoring, and alerting so engineers can self-serve in production
• Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team to ensure developer workflows meet security and compliance requirements
• Write developer documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks; ship improvements iteratively based on user feedback
• Take ownership of assigned projects and services from development through production support, and learn the inner workings of VC while working closely with the investing partnership

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Python 3, Rust, or similar backend languages and willingness to learn new technologies
• Track record of defining and shipping developer platforms or internal tooling that measurably improved engineering velocity
• Experience deploying services on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Experience with containerized services (Docker)
• Exposure to CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, CircleCI, or similar)
• Experience working with production SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Experience working in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence
• Strong problem-solving skills, solid technical fundamentals, low ego, high empathy, and effective collaboration with diverse teams

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes
• NoSQL experience (e.g., Elasticsearch)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)

Culture & Benefits

• Eligible for the a16z Carry program and discretionary bonus programs
• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan, vacation, and sick leave
• Team operating in the mode of an internal startup with a tight feedback loop with users across the firm