Senior Conversational AI Engineer — Production-Grade Chatbots

Farther Finance, LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Roth IRA options

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Farther is building a cutting-edge wealth-management platform powered by production-ready conversational AI. The role centers on architecting and delivering end-to-end AI features that enable clients and advisors to interact with the system through sophisticated chatbot experiences.

You will own backend AI components, design with safety and reliability in mind, and collaborate with product, data engineering, and business teams to ship impactful, enterprise-grade solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Production-grade conversational AI or chatbot experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; proficient with LLMs and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own conversational AI features end-to-end, from requirements through production deployment
• Architect chatbot systems using LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows
• Build with professional engineering standards – testing, observability, reliability, redundancy
• Develop guardrails and authorization boundaries for AI agents handling sensitive financial data
• Collaborate with product, data engineering, and business stakeholders

Skills

Backend software engineering

Conversational AI in production

Python

LLM/prompt engineering

Enterprise delivery experience

Ownership

Tools

LLM frameworks

Job description

Farther is building a cutting-edge wealth-management platform powered by production-ready conversational AI. The role centers on architecting and delivering end-to-end AI features that enable clients and advisors to interact with the system through sophisticated chatbot experiences.

You will own backend AI components, design with safety and reliability in mind, and collaborate with product, data engineering, and business teams to ship impactful, enterprise-grade solutions.