Senior Platform Engineer – AI-Driven FinTech Infra

Equiforte; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Equiforte in New York is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and scale the core infrastructure powering our AI-native financial reporting platform. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and financial logic to process millions of records with institutional-grade accuracy.

You'll own reliability and performance of production services, collaborate with ML engineers for model serving, and mentor peers while shaping architecture, tooling, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems on AWS.
• Deep understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL).

Responsibilities

• Design and build data ingestion pipelines connecting to data sources.
• Architect and implement the platform's core services and API layer.
• Own reliability and performance of production systems with sensitive data.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy AI models in production.
• Drive architectural decisions with focus on observability and simplicity.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering culture.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Node.js

AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, SQS)

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Data pipelines

End-to-end ownership

Technical communication

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Equiforte in New York is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and scale the core infrastructure powering our AI-native financial reporting platform. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and financial logic to process millions of records with institutional-grade accuracy.

You'll own reliability and performance of production services, collaborate with ML engineers for model serving, and mentor peers while shaping architecture, tooling, and