Senior Backend Engineer – AI for Finance & Audit

Hyphenate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals and stocked NYC office

401(k) match

Full medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

Hyphenate, NYC-based, is building the AI operating system for the CFO office. We own a finance domain from revenue to tax and ship end-to-end with a small pod of engineers. You’ll work directly with controllers and CFOs, turning complex finance workflows into audited, reliable software.

We value ownership and the ability to translate finance problems into scalable systems. Expect high autonomy, fast iteration, and collaboration with product and security as you help define a new category:

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, mostly backend or infrastructure.
• Strong backend chops in a modern language — Python, Go, Java, Rust, or similar. Our stack is Python.
• Built hard backend systems—distributed pipelines, transactional or ledger systems, integration platforms, or workflow engines.
• Worked at an early-stage startup (pre-seed through Series B).

Responsibilities

• Own a piece of the future accounting stack; ship end-to-end with a pod of 2–3 engineers.
• Collaborate directly with controllers, accountants, and CFOs to understand problems and build the system that replaces manual processes.
• Operate AI agents fluently and contribute to product judgment and system design.
• Own backend and data pipelines across LLM, infra, and UX as needed.

Skills

Backend development (Python/Go/Java/Rs

Distributed systems

5+ years of software engineering

Startup experience (pre-seed to Series

Tools

Python

Go

Java

Rust

Job description

Hyphenate, NYC-based, is building the AI operating system for the CFO office. We own a finance domain from revenue to tax and ship end-to-end with a small pod of engineers. You’ll work directly with controllers and CFOs, turning complex finance workflows into audited, reliable software.

We value ownership and the ability to translate finance problems into scalable systems. Expect high autonomy, fast iteration, and collaboration with product and security as you help define a new category: