Lead AI Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer (7+ years of experience) to join a high-caliber product team building a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform. In this role, you will work closely with sophisticated global institutional clients and business users to rapidly test, refine, and deploy chat interfaces, reporting systems, and bespoke tools into their core investment workflows.

You will be part of a small, elite team of hands-on engineers where everyone is exceptionally competent in their respective areas. If you thrive in an autonomous, low-formality startup environment with zero legacy code and a chance to directly shape and influence a cutting-edge product, this is the place for you.

Req#

• Architect and build next-generation AI-powered financial assistance workflows and bespoke chat/reporting interfaces

• Take high-level problem definitions, gather low-level requirements, anticipate edge cases, produce system designs, and deliver production implementations independently

• Integrate and optimize AI applications across quality, latency, reliability, and cost

• Ensure high standards for software quality, reliability, security, maintainability, and data privacy

• Leverage AI-assisted programming methods and coding agents while critically reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated code

• Handle AI evaluation and quality engineering, including automated evaluations, test datasets, regression testing, failure analysis, and production monitoring

• Navigate AI security and production controls, including access control, prompt-injection risks, guardrails, and auditability

• Rapidly learn and adopt new technologies as the AI ecosystem evolves

• Experience:
  
  7+ years of overall software engineering experience, with a proven track record of senior/lead autonomy

• Core Tech Stack:
  Strong proficiency in Python and/or React (Type Script)

• Note:
  
  If your primary background is not Python, a strong desire and readiness to learn and master it quickly is required

• Cloud & Infrastructure:
  Experience with FastAPI (strongly desired), AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform

• Frontend Knowledge (Big Plus):
  Experience with frontend development (Type Script/JavaScript, React, Next.js, or Node)

• Proficiency with AI-assisted software development tools and coding agents

• Experience with AI evaluation, automated testing, regression testing, failure analysis, and production monitoring

• Strong understanding of AI security, data privacy, guardrails, and safe handling of sensitive information

• Ability to optimize applications for quality, latency, reliability, and cost

• Mindset:
  High autonomy, strong product judgment, and a low-formality, startup-ready attitude

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)

• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Unlimited access to Linked In learning solutions

• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

• Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)

• Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year

• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection

• Accident Insurance

• Employee Discounts

• Pet Insurance

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program

• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

This Remote Position Cannot be Performed in New York City.

This posting includes a good faith range of the salary EPAM would reasonably expect to pay the selected candidate. The range provided…