Lead Software Engineer

About the role

About Asseta

Asseta is an AI-native operating system purpose-built for UHNWIs, family offices, and RIAs, with over $100B in assets on platform. Our flagship product, the Intelligent Family Office Suite™, enables family offices to operate efficiently, securely, and insightfully in an era of generational wealth transfer and digital transformation.

Our mission is to empower family offices to achieve financial excellence through intuitive, enterprise-grade software and expertise. We simplify complex wealth management and accounting, foster transparency, and ensure data security, delivering unwavering support for our clients' wealth preservation and growth.

The Opportunity

This is not a traditional Lead Engineer role. You'll partner directly with the CTO to establish engineering standards and coding reviews, evolve our architecture, mentor engineers, and build the technical foundation that will support the company for years to come.

You'll spend less time simply writing code and more time increasing the effectiveness of the entire engineering organization. You'll own technical direction, improve engineering velocity, reduce architectural complexity, and help transform a growing engineering team into a world-class organization.

If you enjoy building systems, not just features, you'll thrive here.

What You'll Own

Technical Architecture

Drive architecture across frontend, backend, infrastructure, AI services, and shared platform components.

Design systems that remain maintainable as our product and engineering team scale.

Balance pragmatic delivery with long-term technical sustainability.

Lead technical design reviews and architectural decision making.

Engineering Excellence

Establish coding standards and engineering best practices.

Improve consistency across services, APIs, and shared libraries.

Raise the overall quality of the codebase through thoughtful reviews and mentorship.

Improve observability, testing, performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Technical Leadership

Mentor engineers through architecture discussions, design reviews, and pair programming.

Help engineers grow into stronger software architects.

Guide implementation without becoming a bottleneck.

Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Platform Development

You'll help shape systems including:

AI agent infrastructure

Enterprise accounting platform

Banking integrations

Workflow automation

Real-time collaboration

Enterprise security

Multi-tenant architecture

Infrastructure automation

Shared developer frameworks

Internal platform tooling

What We're Looking For

Required

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Experience leading technical architecture across complex software platforms.

Strong backend engineering experience with Python and modern API design.

Experience building scalable cloud-native systems on AWS.

Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, asynchronous processing, and system reliability.

Experience designing maintainable APIs and shared platform services.

Ability to simplify complex technical problems.

Excellent communication skills with both engineers and business stakeholders.

A passion for mentoring other engineers.

Nice to Have

Experience with:

AI platforms and agent-based systems

Financial software or accounting platforms

Multi-tenant SaaS architecture

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch or Elasticsearch

React and TypeScript

Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, or containerized infrastructure

Event-driven architectures

Enterprise security and compliance

Compensation and Benefits

Asseta offers competitive compensation along with a benefits package that includes:

Base salary of $200,000–$350,000

Equity plan eligibility

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

Unlimited paid time off

Conference sponsorships and training opportunities

Frequent company off-sites and team-building events

On-site at our New York City headquarters