Staff Software Engineer
Arc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsRuby on Rails
About the role
- Lead architecture and development of Arc’s finance and AI systems
- Own end-to-end design for major platform surfaces across cash management, treasury, and debt marketplace.
- Contribute to Arc’s AI agent, *Archie*, evolving from insights → supervised actions → controlled execution inside the bank.
- Build mission-critical, high-reliability financial infrastructure
- Scale our banking rails, KYC/KYB onboarding flows, ledgering systems, and fund movement pipelines.
- Deeply consider safety, audibility, and security in every decision.
- Drive Arc’s automation roadmap
- Automate lending workflows (target: 90% automation).
- Power the AI CFO agent’s ability to take actions, not just deliver insights.
- Own strategic technical decisions
- Identify and implement “fast moving water” opportunities.
- Influence product direction with a strong owner mindset.
- Mentor engineers and elevate engineering quality across the team.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of software engineering experience (strong IC track record).
- Startup experience + exposure to at least one mid-size or large engineering environment.
- Strong system design fundamentals and experience scaling distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of LLMs, agents, embeddings, or vectorized workflows.
- Background in fintech, treasury, payments, or regulated environments (Preferred).
- Experience with document understanding, orchestration agents, or AI feature development (Preferred).
- Familiarity with high-security data systems, audibility, or compliance-heavy infra (Preferred).
Benefits
- The total rewards package at Arc includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringsystem designdistributed systemsLLMsagentsembeddingsvectorized workflowsautomationdocument understandingorchestration agents
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringinfluencingstrategic decision makingowner mindset