Fintech Futures - Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Base pay: $202,500–$274,000 per year in Mountain View; the position may also be eligible for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology platform behind TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision and architecture for agent-initiated settlement, edge AI-driven on-device financial agents, or portable verifiable trust.
• Lead technical designs that contribute to industry standards and fintech integration protocols.
• Anticipate cross-system risks and dependencies across the portfolio.
• Connect engineering with domain and compliance stakeholders, moving technical proof points toward real products.
• Champion strategic investment in frontier technologies and shape technical direction across the organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience in large-scale business environments, including 5+ years designing complex distributed systems.
• End-to-end ownership of a complex technical domain and a record of setting direction for other engineers.
• Ability to resolve deep technical and organizational ambiguity and define problems that are not yet fully specified.
• Fluency in agent-driven development, including agentic observability and reliable autonomous code navigation and modification.
• Strong cross-functional partnership with domain and compliance stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in payments/settlement, edge AI, or identity/trust systems, with the ability to shift focus as the field matures.
• Fluency across Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node sufficient to set direction and review code across a polyglot team.
• Experience making design decisions for Kubernetes-based runtimes such as AWS EKS, including service topology, scaling, and deployment patterns.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, mentoring, independent decision-making, alignment, and cross-functional leadership skills; comfortable in a fast-paced environment with an evolving roadmap.

Nice to have

• Involvement in an open standards body or protocol working group.
• Experience taking a technical capability through compliance/legal review to a beta or sandbox release.
• Hands-on edge AI or on-device deployment experience, including model compression, on-device inference pipelines, or wearable integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Production-grade engineering using real hirify.global data and financial rails.
• Focus on scalability, security, compliance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based rewards.
• Potential cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits under applicable plans and programs.
• Work alongside domain, compliance, and cross-functional engineering stakeholders in a fast-paced, evolving technical environment.