Monstro

Staff Software Engineer

Monstro
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Base Salary

$224k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build auditable AI agent systems, including multi-agent workflows, orchestration layers, and production infrastructure.
  • Evaluate emerging AI models, tools, and development patterns and guide their adoption into robust production systems.
  • Design explainable modeling and reasoning systems for financial-services use cases.
  • Build Python/React internal applications and platforms for authoring, validating, and deploying AI-powered analysis.
  • Own distributed backend infrastructure including event-driven workers, job pipelines, and multi-stage processing systems.
  • Establish automated AI evaluation, hallucination detection, quality assurance, monitoring, and compliance guardrails.
  • Drive cross-team technical decisions involving schemas, API contracts, system boundaries, and service architecture.
  • Contribute to full-stack application development and lead engineering initiatives across teams and partners.
  • Promote engineering and architecture best practices, adopt new AI techniques, and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience leading complex systems from design through production.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production software systems using AI development tools, especially AI-powered software.
  • Strong software engineering and application-architecture skills with a record of establishing best practices.
  • Expertise in Python, including asynchronous services, type-safe code, and scalable systems.
  • Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including event-driven architectures, message queues, job state machines, and worker patterns.
  • Relational database fluency and strong data-modeling ability.
  • Full-stack capability, including building product-quality React/TypeScript user interfaces.
  • Experience leading technical teams or acting as a force multiplier across engineering.
  • Preferred: production AI/ML systems, agent architectures, LLM integration, model evaluation, AI pipelines, multi-agent systems, or AI orchestration layers.
  • Preferred: data engineering and large-scale data pipelines, cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code, quantitative finance or wealth-management technology, or regulated-industry experience involving compliance, auditability, or explainability.

Benefits

  • Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity.
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus disability coverage.
  • Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave.
  • Catered meals.
  • Based in New York City with work in the office four days per week.
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