Senior Engineer - Technical Staff
Savvy Wealth5 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of complex product features and platform systems from scoping and architecture through production and iteration
- Establish engineering patterns and standards for building, testing, observing, and iterating across product and platform work
- Use and champion AI tooling to accelerate individual and team engineering velocity
- Drive architectural decisions involving data models, service boundaries, and system tradeoffs
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Mentor engineers, provide substantive feedback, and serve as a technical judgment resource
- Partner with Product and Design to shape scope and reduce execution risk on ambiguous problems
- Work directly with financial advisor customers to understand their workflows and incorporate that context into product development
Requirements
- At least five years of professional experience
- Extensive daily use of AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, with sound judgment about where AI adds value and how to build it reliably
- Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous projects from conception through production with measurable business impact
- Strong full-stack or platform engineering depth and familiarity with Rails, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL
- Strong system design skills involving data models, service boundaries, failure modes, and scalability
- Clear technical communication and effective cross-functional collaboration
- Preferred experience building production AI features or systems, including LLM integrations, agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, or intelligent automations
- Preferred experience with LLM evaluation frameworks such as RAGAS, LangSmith, or custom harnesses
- Preferred fintech experience in financial services, wealth management, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations
- Preferred experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, or retrieval-augmented generation at production scale
- Preferred fluency with macOS toolchains, cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP, and observability platforms such as Datadog or Honeycomb
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Unlimited PTO and paid company holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Company 401(k), commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
- NYC office in Manhattan
- Lunch and snacks provided in the office
- Virtual mental health care, vision-related benefits, and health concierge services
- Counseling and support through the Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP
Tech Stack
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About Savvy Wealth
Savvy Wealth builds a digital-first wealth management platform and is the parent of Savvy Advisors, an SEC-registered investment advisor for independent financial advisors. Advisors join Savvy, bring their client book, and share assets-under-management revenue in exchange for a proprietary advisor/client portal, investment management, marketing, and back-office operations. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, it uses AI to automate onboarding and planning workflows while leaving client advice to human advisors.