Altana AI
Senior Software Engineer
$170K–$200K
Brooklyn, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
About the job
Leads a small engineering team to build and drive adoption of AI-native products for trade, from customer research and product experiments through production delivery and outcome measurement.
What you'll do
- Work directly with customers and product/design teams to identify needs, shape hypotheses, and decide what to build.
- Lead new product surfaces from prototype through launch and adoption, making practical technical decisions and owning outcomes end to end.
- Set engineering quality standards, review work, and mentor engineers in customer-centered product development.
What they ask for
- Experience deploying production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
- Demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof of concept through MVP to production.
- Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; commitment to engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
Nice to have
- Experience with Python Machine Learning toolsets (Numpy, Pandas, Dedupe).
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Pay
$170,000 - $200,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, Python, PySpark, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build AI-native products using LLMs, agents, evaluations, retrieval, and modern AI tooling as first-class building blocks; determine where AI improves the product.
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