Staff Software Engineer

Menlo Ventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in New York is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the engineering organization. This senior role involves owning complex systems and setting technical direction. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving initiatives from conception to production, focusing on scalability, security, and reliability. Candidates should have a strong background in software development and architecture. Join a dynamic team that's rapidly growing.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development, especially in scalable systems.
• Strong understanding of architecture and performance trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Set technical direction for platform systems.

Job description

Our Company

Arch is a Series B financial technology company that automates the management of private investments, improving access, understanding, and the human experience of investing across asset classes.

Private investments such as venture capital, hedge funds, and private equity, make up roughly 25% of the investment universe. Traditionally, investors, advisors, banks, families, and managers track hundreds of investments in complicated spreadsheets, file folders, and busy inboxes. Not only is this tedious and time‑consuming, but it is rife with opportunity for manual data entry errors, inconsistent reporting, and lost information. Enter, Arch.

Arch delivers standardized data, documents, and insights in a single platform, avoiding the need to chase information across dozens or hundreds of ‘portals’. Our purpose is to save investors’ time while empowering them to make more informed investment decisions, leading to better financial outcomes.

We are a fast‑growing, dynamic team of 200+, serving over 400 clients, including several of America’s largest banks, families, and financial institutions. We’ve over doubled the size of the company every year since inception and we are looking to hire in all departments as we scale.

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll serve as a technical leader and force multiplier across our engineering organization. This is a senior individual contributor role with outsized scope. You’ll own complex, high‑impact systems, set technical direction, and elevate the engineers around you. Your work will shape the foundation of our platform and help Arch scale to meet the demands of a rapidly growing client base.

Key responsibilities:

• Architect and drive complex, cross‑functional technical initiatives from conception to production, with a focus on scalability and long‑term maintainability.
• Set technical direction for core platform systems, making informed trade‑offs to ensure performance, security, and reliability at scale.
• Partner with product, design