Chief Engineer

Wintermeyer Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 335,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Wintermeyer Ventures is seeking a senior individual contributor to lead a core engineering domain within a fintech company building AI-powered banking experiences. You will set technical direction while staying hands-on and help deliver systems supporting the company’s key products.

Responsibilities include owning architecture and standards, coding production systems, and partnering with founders to tie tech decisions to business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of engineering experience with senior individual contributor leadership at Principal, Distinguished, Staff, or Chief Engineer level.
• Strong system design, architecture review, and hands-on coding skills, with experience taking products from 0 to 1 and owning core systems in production at scale.
• Daily, deep use of frontier AI models and development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Engineering fundamentals, ideally including Node.js, React, and Python.
• Experience at growth-stage startups and large technology companies; a technical founder or founding engineer background is a plus.
• Background in conversational AI, voice AI, agentic systems, fintech, banking, or regulated financial services is valued.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related STEM field.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, engineering standards, and outcomes for a core technical domain.
• Design and build production systems alongside engineers, contributing code and setting a high technical bar.
• Partner with founders and product leadership to connect technical decisions with measurable business outcomes.
• Guide engineers and technical leads across your domain while continuing to work as an individual contributor.
• Review work and support quality, reliability, and delivery across engineering teams.
• Promote AI-native development practices using frontier models and tools.
• Build systems across AI runtimes, agents, contact center experiences, integrations, data platforms, and consumer banking.

Skills

System design

Hands-on coding

Frontier AI models

Leadership

Node.js

React

Python

Fintech

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM field

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a senior individual contributor to lead a core engineering domain at a fintech company building AI-powered banking experiences. You will set technical direction while remaining hands-on, and help deliver systems that support the company\'s most important products.

What You\'ll Do

• Own the architecture, engineering standards, and outcomes for a core technical domain.
• Design and build production systems alongside engineers, contributing code and setting a high technical bar.
• Partner with founders and product leadership to connect technical decisions with measurable business outcomes.
• Guide engineers and technical leads across your domain while continuing to work as an individual contributor.
• Review work and support quality, reliability, and delivery across engineering teams.
• Promote AI-native development practices using frontier models and tools.
• Build systems across AI runtimes, agents, contact center experiences, integrations, data platforms, and consumer banking.

What We\'re Looking For

• 8 to 15 years of engineering experience, including senior individual contributor leadership at Principal, Distinguished, Staff, or Chief Engineer level.
• Strong system design, architecture review, and hands-on coding skills, with experience taking products from 0 to 1 and owning core systems in production at scale.
• Daily, deep use of frontier AI models and development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Engineering fundamentals, ideally including Node.js, React, and Python.
• Experience at growth-stage startups and large technology companies; a technical founder or founding engineer background is a plus.
• Background in conversational AI, voice AI, agentic systems, fintech, banking, or regulated financial services is valued.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related STEM field.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $335,000 to $375,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site, five days a week in San Francisco, California.