Staff Software Engineer — Platform Architect & Tech Leader

Asseta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan eligibility

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Unlimited paid time off

Conference sponsorships and training

Frequent off-sites and team-building

Job summary

Asseta, an AI-native operating system for UHNWIs and family offices, seeks a Senior Software Architect to drive technical architecture across frontend, backend, and AI services. You will influence design decisions and mentor engineers as the team scales.

You will shape an enterprise accounting platform, banking integrations, and workflow automation, building scalable cloud-native systems on AWS with strong emphasis on reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading technical architecture across complex software platforms.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Python and modern API design.
• Experience building scalable cloud-native systems on AWS.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, asynchronous processing, and system reliability.
• Experience designing maintainable APIs and shared platform services.
• Ability to simplify complex technical problems.
• Excellent communication skills with both engineers and business stakeholders.
• A passion for mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture across frontend, backend, infrastructure, AI services, and shared platform components.
• Design systems that remain maintainable as our product and engineering team scale.
• Lead technical design reviews and architectural decision making.
• Mentor engineers through architecture discussions, design reviews, and pair programming.
• Improve observability, testing, performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical architecture

Python

API design

AWS

Distributed systems

Databases

Asynchronous processing

Reliability

Problem solving

Communication

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

React

TypeScript

AWS

Job description

Asseta, an AI-native operating system for UHNWIs and family offices, seeks a Senior Software Architect to drive technical architecture across frontend, backend, and AI services. You will influence design decisions and mentor engineers as the team scales.

You will shape an enterprise accounting platform, banking integrations, and workflow automation, building scalable cloud-native systems on AWS with strong emphasis on reliability and security.