Senior Software Engineer
🌍 Hybrid · Los Angeles, CaliforniaFull-timeSoftware Engineering
💰 $144,000 – $216,000/yr
At a glance
- Who can apply
- United States
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid · Los Angeles, California
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years (as stated by the employer)
- Salary
- $144,000 – $216,000/yr · published by the employer
- ✓ Open to early-career candidates
Checked against the employer's source on October 19, 2026. Details come from the employer's posting; confirm them on the application page.
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Job Description
The Senior Software Engineer is a technical pillar and a force multiplier within the organization. In this role, you move beyond the execution of features to owning the architectural integrity, long-term scalability, and strategic technical direction of entire domains. You are expected to operate with near-total autonomy, leading complex cross-functional initiatives and solving systemic issues that impact the broader engineering team.
What You'll Do
- Technical Leadership & Architectural Excellence: Own the end-to-end development of medium-to-large features and systems, ensuring they scale over quarters and years.
- Demonstrate deep architectural thinking by designing and documenting system interactions that prioritize long-term maintainability.
- Propose and drive technical direction at the team level, identifying and reducing systemic issues such as scalability bottlenecks and developer productivity hurdles.
- Make visible improvements to system performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency within your owned domains.
- Execution & Project Delivery: Lead the technical design, implementation, and delivery of complex systems and cross-functional initiatives with minimal oversight.
- Partner with Product Managers to establish realistic timelines and priorities, navigate feature trade-offs, and balance immediate business needs with long-term technical health.
- Consistently meet all published quarterly velocity and quality goals while maintaining high deployment standards.
- AI-native Product Development: Design AI-friendly APIs, layer MCPs on top, and build the next generation of agentic workflows for accounting and finance in your domain.
- Drive the team's adoption of agent-first development workflow to design and deliver robust & scalable solutions
- Mentorship: Consistently mentor 1–2 engineers regularly and provide guidance to multiple peers across the team.
- Act as a "go-to" engineer within your subdomain, proactively raising and solving team-level technical problems.
- Regularly provide constructive feedback to improve the performance of others and unblock peers to maintain team momentum.
- Influence hiring, onboarding, and overall team culture. Contribute to the broader engineering community by writing for the FloQast engineering blog.
- Any other tasks that may be assigned to help the company meet its goals
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Great understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Scripting
- Great understanding of Java/Go, Python, and Scripting
- Proficiency and work experience with Node, MongoDB, AWS, React/Redux, or other MERN-style stacks or equivalent technologies
- Recognizes the importance of testing, code quality, and demonstrates craftsmanship in every project they take on
- Able to produce effective solutions independently within a highly collaborative agile environment.
- Proficiency and work experience with MongoDB, AWS, Springboot, or equivalent technologies
- Recognizes the importance of testing, code quality, and demonstrates craftsmanship in every project they take on
- Able to produce effective solutions independently within a highly collaborative agile environment.
Our Interview Process
- The evaluation process involves a multi-stage assessment comprising a coding exercise, a structured code review, system design and a behavioral assessment to evaluate your engineering approach, logical thinking, familiarity with best practices, and alignment with team values.