Senior Software Engineer

Farsight; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Farsight, based in Manhattan, NY, is seeking a Software Engineer to innovate within the financial services sector through AI technology. The position demands ownership of projects from design to deployment in a fast-paced startup environment.

Ideal candidates will have over 4 years of experience, particularly in full-stack applications, and strong skills in Typescript and Python. The company offers competitive salaries between $150,000 and $200,000 annually, alongside robust benefits including unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time software engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge of building full-stack applications.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy features at scale.
• Listen to customer feedback and prioritize work.
• Create clean, efficient, and change-ready software.

Skills

Typescript

Python

AWS

Full-stack development

Generative AI technology

Job description

About Farsight

Farsight is the agentic AI platform for financial services, currently helping investment banks and private equity firms fully automate entire, highly nuanced workflows. Today, institutions will spend 80% of their time gathering information for and creating first drafts of materials by hand before iterating on and refining their decks, models, and pitches. We not only give them that time back to focus on what is important, but we also bring new insights and knowledge to their materials that they wouldn’t be able to uncover without the help of our financial-focused AI.

We work with an immense amount of both public and private data, delivering highly accurate and auditable materials in an arena far too nuanced for large-scale AI out of the box. Oftentimes, our product generates outputs that outperform the work of existing employees, with customers boasting:

• “I’m more than willing to let my analysts never use Powerpoint again.”
• "We pay consultants millions per year to advise us on our AI strategies. They have zero idea what Farsight is capable of."

Our mission is to upend the way financial services work in corporations gets done, effectively integrating AI into the financial needlework of every company on Earth.

Team

We are a highly motivated team that is driven by creating technology that amazes. Each one of us wears many different hats, whether that be development, sales, infrastructure, design, product innovation, AI research, and more - and we expect those coming in to have the experience or the motivation to wear just as many.

Our team has had a wide range of experience that uniquely equips us to capture this massive opportunity. Our team comes from leading financial institutions like Evercore, General Atlantic and Menlo Ventures, supercharged by scalable engineering and AI skills from companies including Amazon, Hugging Face and the MIT Media Lab. We've learned the ins and outs of building successful startups from previous work as founders and founding engineers. We focus on hiring the best so that we can become the best, so we hope you apply!

We are entirely based in Manhattan, New York City, and are in-person 4 days a week (except Fridays, which are remote).

Job Description

Farsight operates at the cutting-edge of AI to deliver human-like work within some of the world’s largest, and most critical, financial organizations. We have an extensive backlog from customer demand along with immense opportunities for product innovation. As such, we require someone that will not only ship features but will also move the ball forward towards a unified and expansive platform offering.

You will have full ownership of projects that you will have to design, implement, and deploy at scale in a highly fluid and fast-paced startup environment. While you will have to create clean, efficient, and ready-for-change software, you will also have to listen to customer feedback, prioritize work streams, and gauge quality of outputs with a critical lens. On the software side specifically, your work will range from longer-term research projects to bug fixes alike - all of which crucial to our company’s success.

Farsight is a highly collaborative environment where you and your highly motivated, passionate team members will continuously be working together to create new technology and applications that deliver the robust, accurate, market-changing solutions that our customers have come to expect.

Desired Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time software engineering experience
• Deep knowledge and experience with building full-stack, user-friendly applications ready for scale
• Experience with Typescript, Python, and cloud-based infrastructure like AWS
• Strong interest in learning and understanding generative AI technology and the current, rapidly evolving landscape
• Experience working in unstructured environments, where you took full autonomy in delivering projects from conception to deployment
• You are intrinsically motivated and self-critical of your work, two aspects that are important for rapid innovation on a lean team
• Are able to effectively communicate with and collaborate with a growing team
• Bring a positive and fun attitude to the workplace!

Above and Beyond Qualifications

• Former early engineer or founder at a fast-growing startup
• Previous AI research and/or interactions with AI systems, including utilizing closed-source models, fine-tuning and spinning up open-sourced models, etc.
• Deep understanding of scalable system design, performance optimization, and resilience engineering
• Extensive front-end experience in tandem with some experience in UI / UX design work
• Previous experience interacting with customers and receiving customer feedback
• Have leadership experience in a technical position

Compensation & Benefits

Salary ranges between $150,000 and $200,000 annually depending on level of experience of the applicant. Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with unlimited PTO are included in the benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Farsight is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affinative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.