Staff Engineer & Tech Lead - AI WealthTech

Storm2; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth Start Up in the Wealth Tech Space is seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead in San Francisco to own backend architecture, design scalable systems, and drive AI-enabled product features. The role emphasizes building robust data-heavy platforms and collaborating closely with product teams.

You will work on complex data workflows, external integrations, and full-stack initiatives while shaping the technical direction of a lean, high-impact team in the wealth management space.

Qualifications

• Experience building production-grade systems with complex data workflows.
• Strong design skills for distributed systems and scalable backend architectures.
• Cloud proficiency across AWS/GCP/Azure and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable systems with complex data workflows and external integrations.
• Own backend architecture (Node/TypeScript) and contribute to frontend when needed.
• Develop reliable pipelines, APIs, and services with observability and performance in mind.
• Collaborate with product to ship features quickly and iterate based on feedback.
• Leverage AI tools to enable AI-driven product features.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Backend architecture

Cloud environments

Full-stack capability

Product-minded communication

Leadership & ownership

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Stealth Start Up in the Wealth Tech Space is seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead in San Francisco to own backend architecture, design scalable systems, and drive AI-enabled product features. The role emphasizes building robust data-heavy platforms and collaborating closely with product teams.

You will work on complex data workflows, external integrations, and full-stack initiatives while shaping the technical direction of a lean, high-impact team in the wealth management space.