San Francisco On-site Full-time USD 185,000 – 255,000 / year

Casca is hiring a Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

This position requires a blend of deep technical contribution and strategic leadership, ensuring rapid delivery while maintaining system stability and mentoring team members to achieve their full potential.

Responsibilities

  • Spend approximately 70% of time writing high-quality code and 30% collaborating with stakeholders and guiding team members
  • Lead technical strategy with urgency, making architectural choices that ensure long-term platform stability amid rapid growth
  • Pinpoint key development paths and make critical technical decisions to maintain organizational momentum
  • Maintain a consistent balance between individual coding output and efforts to align the team around shared technical goals
  • Deliver features independently while actively removing obstacles for teammates
  • Drive project execution by breaking down complex initiatives into parallelizable tasks
  • Ensure consistent delivery pace by minimizing delays and keeping features moving toward production
  • Strengthen team capabilities through direct mentorship and leading by example
  • Empower colleagues to achieve their highest potential by promoting strong engineering practices
  • Prioritize impactful solutions using pattern recognition to balance delivery speed, quality, and system complexity
  • Design customer-centric software without introducing unnecessary complexity
  • Raise engineering standards by improving controls and communication to enhance system reliability
  • Use quantitative insights to prioritize work that delivers measurable impact

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of financial services through AI-driven products with full ownership of key initiatives
  • Work in a collaborative setting with skilled professionals who value learning and knowledge exchange
  • Receive competitive pay, benefits, and equity participation in a high-growth startup environment
  • Grow professionally through access to learning resources and mentorship that support career advancement
  • Be part of an innovative culture that embraces calculated risks, learns from setbacks, and advances fintech boundaries

Compensation

Competitive salary, benefits, and potential equity

Work Arrangement

Not specified

Team

Fast-paced, high-growth technology team building AI-driven financial infrastructure

Other

  • Operating as an early-stage company at the forefront of AI, the work environment is intense and demands strong commitment
  • Workload may require extended focus, adaptability, and additional time, especially around major product launches and critical development sprints
  • Seeking candidates who are fully aligned with and prepared to meet these operational expectations

Not specified

About company
Casca
Casca is building AGI for banking. We’re replacing decades-old legacy systems with AI-native technology that automates 90% of the manual work humans once had to do.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category fullstack
Posted 7 months ago