Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineer
Arca · NY
$200,000–$300,000
Jul 22, 2026
NY
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend/infrastructure engineering role at an AI-driven wealth management startup, focused on building and owning the core platform that AI agents run on. Day-to-day work spans backend services, data pipelines, agent sandboxing and execution safety, developer tooling, and the systems that onboard newly acquired financial advisory firms. Suited to engineers who think in systems, want broad ownership, and are comfortable operating in a regulated, high-stakes domain.
Senior level · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,700 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 700–2,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title 'Member of Technical Staff' carries no explicit seniority level, so the title states no level; however, the scope of ownership (core infrastructure, agent execution, developer experience, performance/cost at scale) and the expectation of end-to-end systems thinking support a Senior classification.
No specific technologies, languages, or frameworks are named anywhere in the posting — the skills extracted are derived from the concrete functional areas described (sandboxing/code execution, APIs, CI/CD, observability, data warehouses, pipelines, LLM agents). All are inferred from narrative context rather than a formal requirements section, so all are marked preferred except those described as central to the role's primary deliverables.
The posting explicitly requires full-time, in-office presence five days a week in Flatiron, NYC — this is not a remote role.
No compensation range, degree requirement, or experience-year floor is stated anywhere in the posting.
The role is at a Series A startup (12-person team, 8 engineers); the 'Member of Technical Staff' framing and the breadth of ownership described suggest a senior individual contributor, not a people manager.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): sandboxing / code execution environments.
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