Staff Software Engineer
Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Partners2 months ago
Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and drive technical architecture for complex initiatives across web applications, backend services, integration pipelines, and data platforms.
- Design and build reusable data architectures, APIs, data contracts, transformations, and integrations across internal and external systems.
- Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications and distributed cloud-native services.
- Architect and integrate agentic AI workflows, autonomous agents, LLM-driven automation, and AI copilots into engineering and product systems.
- Set organization-wide engineering standards for code quality, system design, testing, deployment, and responsible AI-assisted development.
- Lead technical design reviews, provide architectural guidance, and influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Translate business strategy and client needs into scalable technical roadmaps, solution options, trade-offs, and delivery approaches.
- Identify and resolve systemic performance, reliability, and scalability issues across the technology stack.
- Mentor and coach senior and mid-level engineers across full-stack and AI engineering practices.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, particularly agentic AI and automation, for business applicability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or a related field is preferred.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecting full-stack web applications at scale.
- Experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, event-driven architectures, and API-based integrations across internal and third-party systems.
- Strong database design experience with relational SQL and NoSQL data stores.
- Strong experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design using REST or GraphQL.
- Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks such as React and Next.js and backend languages such as C#, Node.js, or Java.
- Hands-on experience building or integrating agentic AI systems, LLM-powered applications, or AI agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, or MCP.
- Track record leading large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams and mentoring engineers without direct reporting authority.
- Preferred experience includes LLM-powered applications, AI agent orchestration, tool-calling architectures, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, event-driven real-time processing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Docker, Kubernetes, and relevant commercial real estate, fintech, or operations systems experience.
- Preferred technical thought leadership through speaking, writing, or open-source contributions, especially in applied AI.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- Paid time off.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching.
- Competitive benefits package and normal working conditions.
Tech Stack
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About Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Partners
Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that brokers and trades fixed income and equities, underwrites and advises via its investment bank, and provides prime brokerage, asset management, and commercial real estate financing to institutions, corporations, and governments. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York, it operates worldwide and is affiliated with BGC Partners (NASDAQ: BGC), which runs interdealer brokerage and related financial technology businesses.