Senior Software Engineer — AI-Powered FinTech Platform

Meadow; New York (NY); On-site; USD 149,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Competitive Equity

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision

Flexible Paid Time Off

Paid Company Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

1-2 Onsites Per Year

Ambitious, kind, no-drama team

Job summary

Meadow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale Meadow Pay, our student financial engagement platform. As we continue expanding to universities nationwide, you will design, build, and operate core systems across our backend and frontend stack, partnering with Product, CX, and Integrations to deliver high-quality software.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take ownership of features from concept through production, using AI tooling to enhance productivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong backend development experience (TypeScript/Node.js).
• Experience building modern frontend applications (React).
• Experience with relational databases and performant SQL queries.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and modern deployment practices.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability best practices.
• Builder mindset with high agency and urgency.
• Proven success communicating and collaborating with product, design, engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of product features from design through deployment and ongoing support.
• Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs (TypeScript/Node.js).
• Contribute to frontend development using modern frameworks (React).
• Design systems with reliability, observability, and maintainability in mind.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, CX, and Integrations teams to deliver customer-facing functionality.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold high standards for code quality and system design.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling, and documentation to support scale.
• Help shape technical decisions and engineering culture as we grow.

Skills

Backend development (TypeScript/Node)

Frontend development (React)

SQL & relational databases

AWS / cloud infrastructure

Observability & monitoring

End-to-end ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

SQL

AWS

Job description

Meadow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale Meadow Pay, our student financial engagement platform. As we continue expanding to universities nationwide, you will design, build, and operate core systems across our backend and frontend stack, partnering with Product, CX, and Integrations to deliver high-quality software.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take ownership of features from concept through production, using AI tooling to enhance productivity.