Tech Architect & Platform Lead — AI-Driven FinTech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Conference sponsorships and training

Job summary

Asseta, an AI-native operating system for UHNWIs, family offices, and RIAs, seeks a Lead Engineer to work directly with the CTO to set engineering standards and drive architectural evolution. You will mentor engineers, shape the technical foundation, and spearhead initiatives that reduce architectural complexity while increasing velocity.

You will own the technical direction across systems, improve observability, and ensure scalable, secure platform growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading technical architecture across complex software platforms.
• Experience building scalable cloud-native systems on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture across frontend, backend, infrastructure, AI services, and shared platform components.
• Mentor engineers through architecture discussions, design reviews, and pair programming.
• Lead technical design reviews and architectural decision making.
• Establish coding standards and engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

APIs

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

React/TypeScript

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Asseta, an AI-native operating system for UHNWIs, family offices, and RIAs, seeks a Lead Engineer to work directly with the CTO to set engineering standards and drive architectural evolution. You will mentor engineers, shape the technical foundation, and spearhead initiatives that reduce architectural complexity while increasing velocity.

You will own the technical direction across systems, improve observability, and ensure scalable, secure platform growth.