Staff Software Engineer
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at F2. San Francisco · full-time · $200,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and ship product features across the user interface, backend services and AI workflows
- Set the application platform’s technical direction and roadmap across its React-based frontend and Python or Node services
- Run document processing, chat and analytics systems, balancing response time, output quality and operating cost
- Implement SOC 2 safeguards, including tenant separation, limited access, audit trails and encrypted data flows
- Set engineering practices for testing, releases, observability and incident response, while mentoring engineers
What you bring
- At least seven years building and scaling critical software, including products and systems designed from the ground up
- Production experience across a modern web frontend and Python or Node backend, including APIs, data models and reliability
- Hands-on experience with Postgres, Redis and workflow or messaging systems such as Temporal, SQS or Kafka
- Experience delivering AI features and working within SOC 2 or a comparable compliance program
Who this fits
This is a hands-on staff-level role for an engineer who wants to build across the stack, shape architecture and mentor teammates while shipping production systems. The role is hybrid in San Francisco.
From the employer
About F2
F2 is redefining how the financial sector operates by bridging the gap between legacy workflows in institutional finance and the future of AI-driven efficiency. While large financial firms comprise the backbone of the economy, their front and middle-office processes are still manual, spreadsheet-heavy, and fragmented.
F2 is the leading vertical AI platform purpose-built for private markets and commercial banking. We transform dense, unstructured deal materials into auditable, decision-ready insights in minutes. This is not generic AI tooling. It is core infrastructure embedded directly into underwriting, credit, and portfolio workflows. We are the only fully vertical platform in this space with meaningful, proven revenue and real product–market fit.
The Role:
We are seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer who thrives in building from 0‑1 and driving execution, directly contributing production-level systems across the entire stack while shaping our core product foundation. You will collaborate closely with the founding team to architect, build, and ship the features and services that power F2's AI-driven enterprise analytics platform from user-facing interfaces to the backend systems and AI workflows behind them.
What you'll do:
Hands-on product building. Design and implement features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and AI layers. Actively writing production code and shipping real systems, not just specs and diagrams.
Own the technical architecture. Define and execute the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for our application platform (Next.js/React frontend, containerized Python and Node services), ensuring rapid iteration while scaling reliably with enterprise demand.
Build AI-heavy product experiences. Design and operate the systems behind document processing, chat, and analytics — spanning workflow orchestration (Temporal), streaming pipelines, vector search, and LLM inference paths; balancing latency, quality, and cost.
Build for security and compliance. Ship features and services that meet SOC 2 requirements from day one: multi-tenant isolation, least-privilege access, audit logging, and encrypted data flows across storage, database, and AI providers.
Establish engineering excellence. Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response; mentor engineers to foster a culture of reliable, maintainable, high-velocity development.
Cross-functional collaboration. Partner with product, design, and enterprise customers to translate requirements into pragmatic, well-crafted solutions that ship quickly and hold up under real usage.
What you bring:
Hands-on technical leadership. 7+ years building and scaling mission-critical software, with demonstrated experience architecting products and systems from the ground up.
Full-stack fluency. Production experience across modern web frontends (React/Next.js or equivalent) and backend services (Python and/or Node.js), including API design, data modeling, and building for performance and reliability.
Systems and data expertise. Comfort operating Postgres at scale (RDS, Supabase, or self-managed), Redis, and workflow/message systems (Temporal, SQS, Kafka), and ideally vector databases or LLM serving infrastructure.
Product and AI sensibility. Familiarity building AI-powered features — LLM integration, retrieval, agents, or streaming interfaces — with a focus on real user value.
Security-first mindset. Practical experience building within SOC 2 (or similar) compliance programs, including access control, secrets handling, and multi-tenant data isolation.
Execution-driven mindset. You thrive in environments where you own systems end-to-end, iterate rapidly, and deliver production-ready solutions; and you measure success in shipped impact, reliability, and user outcomes.
Passionate builder who enjoys solving complex, ambiguous problems across the stack and iterating toward clear, impactful goals.
Location: San Francisco
Employment Type: Full time
Location Type: Hybrid
Department: Engineering, Product, Design (EPD)
Compensation: $200K – $300K • Offers Equity
The total rewards package at F2 includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
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