Senior Engineer - Technical Staff
Savvy WealthBase 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
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About Savvy Wealth
Savvy Wealth is the trusted partner for independent financial advisors, combining infrastructure, service, and intelligent tools to make great advice easier to deliver. Disclosure: Savvy Wealth, Inc. is a tech company and the parent company of Savvy Advisors, Inc. All advisory services are offered through Savvy Advisors, Inc., an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The AI used on Savvy Wealth’s advisor platform is not intended to replace human advice. The AI technology efficiently automates and streamlines processes like new account onboarding, ongoing financial planning and personalized communications across multiple marketing channels. The AI is not intended to interact with retail clients of Savvy Advisors, nor does the AI provide client-facing investment advice or investment decisions.