Software Engineer

Farsight; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

An innovative AI platform provider in Manhattan seeks a Software Engineer to design and implement technical systems. You will engage with customers to ensure rapid expansion of the platform. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in software engineering, experience with Python and AWS, and an interest in generative AI technology. The compensation ranges from $120,000 to $150,000 annually, along with competitive benefits including unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship software engineering experience.
• Experience building applications ready for scale and production.
• Strong interest in generative AI technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complete technical systems based on business needs.
• Rapidly expand the platform to enhance user experience.
• Collaborate with a motivated team to create new technology and applications.

Skills

Python

Cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)

Software engineering

Generative AI technology

Communication and collaboration

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, resulting in quotes from our customers like:

• "I’m more than willing to let my analysts never use Powerpoint again."
• "There is not a second year associate on the planet that can do this as well as you have."

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 small, highly motivated team that is driven by creating technology that amazes. Each one of us wears many different skillset hats, whether that be development, sales, infrastructure, design, product innovation, 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 work experiences that have led us to be the fast growing startup we are. We have gained financial domain knowledge from Evercore and General Atlantic, gained scalable engineering skills from big tech like Amazon, learned enterprise AI sales from Hugging Face, and have 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 preferred (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, and as such need someone that can help rapidly expand our platform to be able to supercharge each of our users.

You will be responsible for designing and implementing complete technical systems, informed from business needs and often directly addressing customer feedback. Being at the interface between customer and product, you will have to move extremely quickly - all while upholding our standard of developing clean, efficient, and ready for change software. The scope of your projects will range from longer term swings to bug fixes alike, each 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 solutions that our customers are expecting.

Desired Qualifications

• 2+ years of non‑internship software engineering experience
• Knowledge and experience with building applications ready for both scale and production deployment
• Experience with 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 of 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

• Have previously worked at either an early‑stage startup or big tech
• Previous development experience with AI systems, including utilizing closed‑source models, fine‑tuning and spinning up open‑sourced models, etc.
• Understanding of system design patterns and test‑driven development techniques in order to create reliable, ready for change code
• Previous experience interacting with customers and receiving customer feedback

Compensation & Benefits

Salary ranges between $120,000 and $150,000 annually depending on the 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 Affidavit Act 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.