Staff Engineer: AI Agent Platform (NYC, Visa Sponsorship)

True; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Fintech Company is seeking an experienced backend/full-stack engineer to build and own its agent platform. You will develop reliable AI systems that support financial advisors and clients, focusing on high-quality outputs, human collaboration, and data accuracy.

Responsibilities include designing an orchestration layer for LLMs, building ambient agents to triage email and draft communications, and creating interfaces for advisor-agent collaboration. Visa sponsorship is available.

Qualifications

• Four to ten years of full-stack or backend engineering experience, including production LLM-powered agents.
• Experience orchestrating LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across APIs, data modeling, and system design.
• Fluency with Python, LLMs, vector databases, TypeScript, and React.
• Experience shipping and maintaining high-quality AI systems in production, including evaluation infrastructure for non-deterministic systems.
• Background at a high-growth startup or comparable technical environment, with evidence of growth and progression in your work.

Responsibilities

• Build general-purpose agents that plan and complete complex tasks using code execution, web search, retrieval, and other tools.
• Develop ambient agents that triage email, process meetings, draft communications, and surface timely actions for advisors and clients.
• Design the agent harness that coordinates language models, context, tools, retrieval, and business logic.
• Create generative user interfaces and human-in-the-loop workflows that let advisors collaborate with agents and retain control.
• Build evaluation infrastructure for both correctness-sensitive financial data and tasks requiring judgment.
• Develop memory systems that retrieve and update relevant client context over time.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend engineering

LLM-powered agents

Python

TypeScript

React

Tools

Retrieval-augmented generation

Agent frameworks

APIs

Data modeling

Vector databases

Job description

Fintech Company is seeking an experienced backend/full-stack engineer to build and own its agent platform. You will develop reliable AI systems that support financial advisors and clients, focusing on high-quality outputs, human collaboration, and data accuracy.

Responsibilities include designing an orchestration layer for LLMs, building ambient agents to triage email and draft communications, and creating interfaces for advisor-agent collaboration. Visa sponsorship is available.