Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team

Acorns
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Python","PyTorch","Pandas","NumPy","SciKit-Learn","Matplotlib","Huggingface","LangChain","LLM","Transformer"]

Senior Backend Engineer for Acorns AI team developing a customer service virtual agent. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design, build, and productionize AI-driven fintech solutions, optimize data pipelines, and mentor junior engineers in a remote-first environment.

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Acorns
Acorns
1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team

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Job Summary

Senior Backend Engineer for Acorns AI team developing a customer service virtual agent. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design, build, and productionize AI-driven fintech solutions, optimize data pipelines, and mentor junior engineers in a remote-first environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Understand Acorns’ mission, vision, strategic objectives, and fintech industry knowledge while building relationships with team members, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
  • •Review and analyze proprietary datasets, existing Vector database architecture, pipelines, and tools to identify gaps and propose improvements.
  • •Contribute to key customer-facing projects, debugging and enhancing models, scaling pipelines, and delivering the virtual support bot MVP to production.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align AI efforts with business goals, mentor junior team members, and drive innovation through LLM capabilities.
  • •Optimize data pipelines, establish scalable monitoring processes, and develop a roadmap for innovation aligned with fintech objectives.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity401kRemote WorkPaid LeaveHealth Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of total software engineering experience
  • •3+ years of experience in artificial intelligence, data science, or machine learning engineering
  • •3+ years of experience with modern cloud computing technologies (AWS, Bedrock, Sagemaker, Databricks, or Kubernetes)
  • •Proficiency in programming languages and analytical tools (Python, PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy, SciKit-Learn, Matplotlib)
  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, or a STEM-related field
Experience:5+ yearsFintechAI/MLCloud computingPythonPyTorch
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:PythonPyTorchPandasNumPySciKit-LearnMatplotlibHuggingfaceLangChainLLMTransformer
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchPandasNumPySciKit-LearnMatplotlibHuggingfaceLangChainAWSBedrockSagemakerDatabricksKubernetes

Company Brief

Acorns
Acorns is a fintech platform that automates savings and micro-investing by rounding up purchases and investing spare change into diversified ETF portfolios, and offers banking, retirement, and family-focused financial products.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: Irvine, United States
Founded: 2012
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