Senior AI FinTech Backend Engineer: Ownership & Impact

The Developer Link; New York (NY); On-site; USD 194,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

The Developer Link in New York is seeking a strong backend-focused engineer to own the development of core features and APIs. You will work across the stack when needed, contributing to internal apps, data pipelines, and AI workflows in a fast-moving startup.

Ideal candidates have solid Python backend experience, production deployment skills, and some React/TypeScript comfort to handle front-end touches. Equity is offered and the role is office-based four days per week.

Qualifications

• Strong Python, backend architecture and relational database experience.
• Experience taking applications and features into production.
• Enough React/TypeScript experience to deliver across the stack.
• Confidence using modern AI development tools.
• A self-motivated engineer who questions assumptions and takes ownership.
• Applied AI, agentic systems or data engineering experience would be a big plus.
• Startup experience is ideal, though experience within a small autonomous team at a larger company could also fit.

Responsibilities

• Own application development and build features end to end across the stack.
• Work on core product features, internal applications and public APIs.
• Collaborate on distributed backend systems, data pipelines and agentic AI workflows.

Skills

Python

Backend architecture

Relational databases

Tools

React/TypeScript

Job description

The Developer Link in New York is seeking a strong backend-focused engineer to own the development of core features and APIs. You will work across the stack when needed, contributing to internal apps, data pipelines, and AI workflows in a fast-moving startup.

Ideal candidates have solid Python backend experience, production deployment skills, and some React/TypeScript comfort to handle front-end touches. Equity is offered and the role is office-based four days per week.