Staff Software Engineer
Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Partners3 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and drive technical architecture for complex cross-team full-stack initiatives across frontend, backend, data, and distributed services.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications and cloud-native systems.
- Architect and integrate agentic AI workflows, LLM-powered applications, AI copilots, and agent orchestration systems.
- Set engineering standards for code quality, system design, testing, deployment, and responsible AI-assisted development.
- Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance to multiple engineering teams.
- Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership on scalable technical roadmaps and AI-driven product capabilities.
- Identify and resolve systemic performance, reliability, and scalability issues across the technology stack.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise organizational standards for full-stack and AI engineering.
- Evaluate and drive adoption of modern frameworks, tools, agentic AI, LLM tooling, and engineering practices.
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.
- Expertise with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React and Next.js, plus backend languages such as C#, Node.js, or Java.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, API design, cloud-native architecture, relational and NoSQL databases, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud platforms.
- 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.
- Demonstrated leadership of large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams and ability to influence technical direction without direct reporting authority.
- Preferred experience with multi-agent systems, tool-calling architectures, RAG pipelines, event-driven architectures, real-time data processing, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred background in commercial real estate, fintech, or operations and transaction systems.
- Preferred technical thought leadership through speaking, writing, or open-source contributions, especially in applied AI.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Competitive compensation and potential eligibility for discretionary bonuses, deferred cash, equity, and other incentives.
- Access to world-class learning resources, mentorship, and engineering and AI resources.
- Growth opportunities within a collaborative, high-caliber engineering culture.
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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.