✨ AI Insights & Summary
FloQast is at the forefront of revolutionizing accounting with its AI-powered platform, and this Senior Software Engineer role on the Core AI team is a pivotal opportunity to shape that future. You'll be instrumental in architecting and scaling cutting-edge AI products, directly contributing to the vision of an "AI accountant teammate." This position is ideal for a seasoned engineer passionate about production AI systems and eager to influence the technical direction of AI across a leading fintech company.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core AI team, you will be a key driver of FloQast’s AI transformation. You will help architect, build, and scale the AI products that power our accounting automation platform and enable our vision of an AI accountant teammate. This role requires solid expertise in production AI systems and a passion for solving complex accounting workflow challenges. You will not only build AI applications but also contribute to the technical direction of AI across FloQast, helping to establish the platform and standards that enable distributed AI execution company-wide.
What You’ll Do
- Contribute to the architecture and lead development of production AI products including intelligent chatbots, document processing systems, and agentic workflows using Python and modern AI frameworks.
- Design and implement components of our centralized AI platform, including model routing, provider management, vector search, and AI application frameworks with seamless MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations.
- Build scalable AI products that integrate with diverse technologies, including accounting systems, document repositories, and external APIs, while maintaining robust monitoring and observability.
- Implement context engineering and system design for AI applications, ensuring optimal information retrieval, context assembly, and multi-turn conversation management.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to ensure AI products are robust, compliant, and aligned with business objectives in the regulated accounting space.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers on the growing AI team, promoting best practices for AI product development, deployment, and governance.
What You’ll Bring
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3+ years focused on building backends for production applications.
- Strong proficiency in Python, alongside familiarity with AI application frameworks, context engineering, and scalable system design for AI products.
- Experience designing products that integrate with multiple technologies, APIs, and data sources in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
- Strong desire to develop deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, document processing, and MCP integrations.
- Proven ability to own tech product initiatives, drive technical standards, and communicate complex system designs to both technical and business stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building chatbots or conversational AI products in production.
- Background in system integration, API design, or enterprise software platforms.
- Familiarity with accounting workflows and financial data processing.
- Experience with AI observability, debugging tools, and production AI monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with advanced RAG architectures, reranking systems, and retrieval optimization techniques.
- Knowledge of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) or other RL techniques for improving AI product performance.
- Experience building AI platform components like embedding pipelines, semantic search systems, or multi-modal processing frameworks.
About FloQast
FloQast is the leading AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform, uniquely built by former accountants for accountants. We automate complex, recurring accounting workflows—transforming preparers into strategic reviewers and relieving accountants from tedious manual work. Our cloud-based solution is trusted by over 3,500 world-class accounting teams, including Lululemon, Doordash, and the MLB, to drive collaboration and financial accuracy. Driven by a mission to continuously elevate the profession, FloQast is redefining both the practice and the perception of accounting on a global scale.
Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:
- Unwaveringly Authentic
- Ambitious with Integrity
- Empowered to Grow
- Committed to Collaboration
- Customer Obsessed in All Ways
Why Join Us?
FloQast is regularly rated as a Best Place to Work, recognized by publications like Inc. Magazine and the LA Business Journal for multiple consecutive years. You'll join a team that values purpose, integrity, grit, excellence, and collaboration. We offer a competitive compensation package including:
- Base pay range: $144,000 - $216,000
- Comprehensive Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation.
Culture & Values
We are Customer Obsessed in All Ways, Ambitious with Integrity, Empowered to Grow, Committed to Collaboration, and Unwaveringly Authentic. We foster a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees and are committed to fair and unbiased recruitment procedures.
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