FT Partners — the award-winning fintech-focused investment bank recognised as Investment Bank of the Year and Boutique of the Year, led by partners from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan — is seeking a skilled Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA. You will build and improve FT Base, the company’s mission-critical internal project management and data application suite built on Python, Django, TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL — powering all global operations and an enterprise AI MCP server. Hybrid working available.
Work Model: Hybrid — San Francisco, CA | AI Development Skills + Strong Python/TypeScript Background Required
About FT Partners — Fintech Investment Banking Leader
Recognition: Investment Bank of the Year and Boutique of the Year — multiple industry award winner
Leadership: Managing Partners and Directors with backgrounds at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan
Deal Expertise: Billion-dollar transactions AND early-stage, high-growth VC fintech deals
Tech Stack: FT Base — Python, Django (DRF), TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, MCP server for enterprise AI
Culture: Close-knit, rapidly growing team with clear career progression and competitive compensation
Career Opportunity & Why FT Partners San Francisco
Mission-Critical Work: Build the internal platform that runs all FT Partners global operations daily
AI-Driven Dev: Work at the frontier of AI-assisted software development in a fast-evolving fintech environment
Deal Exposure: Proximity to world-class fintech transactions — Revolut, Divvy, GreenSky, DailyPay and more
Career Growth: Clear progression path with competitive compensation in a growing, high-prestige boutique bank
Position Overview
The Software Engineer at FT Partners in San Francisco is a high-ownership, full-stack development role building and maintaining FT Base — the company’s mission-critical internal project management and data platform used across FT Partners’ global operations. You will execute on feature development, refactoring, and architectural improvements across a codebase built in Python, Django (DRF), TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL — including an MCP server that delivers data and interactivity to employees through enterprise AI tooling. This role demands a technically strong, AI-fluent engineer who writes stable, maintainable code, thinks in systems rather than features, and brings the ownership mindset to produce reliable software without accumulating technical debt.
Why This Role Matters: As Software Engineer at FT Partners, you are building the digital backbone of one of fintech’s most prestigious investment banks. FT Base runs every operation across FT Partners globally — and your contributions directly shape the reliability, efficiency, and intelligence of that platform. You will work with cutting-edge AI development tooling to ship stable, well-documented features, contribute to an MCP server powering enterprise AI interactions for employees, collaborate with a sharp, driven team on a genuinely mission-critical application, and build a high-impact engineering career at the intersection of fintech, AI, and institutional-grade software development.
Key Responsibilities
Feature Development & Codebase Ownership
- Execute on instructions to build new features, improve existing functionality, refactor legacy code, or cleanly remove outdated features from FT Base
- Produce stable, reliable features across the Python, Django (DRF), TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL stack without accumulating technical debt
- Immerse yourself deeply in the context and business requirements of each functional area within FT Base’s broad internal application suite
- Make informed, well-reasoned recommendations on how to progress projects — whether through growth, simplification, or better alignment with adjacent system areas
AI-Assisted Development
- Apply strong AI prompt-driven development skills backed by genuine technical understanding to accelerate feature delivery without sacrificing quality
- Critically review, explain, and verify all AI-produced code before submission — ensuring correctness, maintainability, and compatibility with the existing codebase
- Navigate and overcome the obstacles that commonly arise beyond the prototype phase, steering AI-assisted work toward cohesive, scalable systems
- Contribute to and support the MCP server that delivers data and AI-powered interactivity to FT Partners employees through enterprise AI tooling
Application Review & Engineering Standards
- Review and evaluate applications or prototypes built outside the engineering department — helping steer, rebuild, refactor, or secure them as appropriate
- Maintain rigorous test coverage across new and existing features to support platform stability and confidence in deployments
- Write clear, useful documentation that enables teammates and future engineers to understand, maintain, and extend the codebase effectively
- Participate actively in code review, technical discussions, and collaborative engineering decisions across the team
Systems Thinking & Sustainable Architecture
- Think in systems rather than isolated features — maintaining awareness of how new work integrates with and impacts the broader FT Base architecture
- Actively resist unnecessary complexity and evaluate the maintenance burden of every feature or architectural decision before implementing
- Help organise, consolidate, and strengthen the existing software suite for sustained long-term impact as FT Partners continues to grow
- Bring flexible, business-pressure-aware engineering judgement — understanding when pragmatism and when rigour is the right choice
Qualifications & Requirements
Experience Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer in a web application development environment, or
- 2 years of professional software engineering experience combined with a reputable bootcamp certification demonstrating applied skills, or
- A 4-year engineering degree combined with meaningful projects or professional work experience demonstrating genuine engineering capability
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript — the primary languages of the FT Base application stack
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, Git version control workflows, and web application system design principles and patterns
- Django and Django REST Framework (DRF) experience is a significant advantage — actively listed as a preferred qualification
- AWS or cloud infrastructure experience is beneficial for supporting FT Base’s deployment and operational needs
AI Development Skills
- Strong practical AI prompt-driven development abilities — you actively use AI tooling to write, debug, and accelerate code production
- Ability to confidently explain, verify, and take full ownership of any AI-produced code you submit for review or deployment
- Demonstrated experience moving AI-assisted projects beyond the prototype phase into stable, production-ready, scalable systems
- Systems-oriented instinct — building with cohesion and long-term compatibility in mind, not just getting something to work today
Ideal Mindset & Soft Skills
- Responsible and organised — you funnel ideas into sustainable, compatible features rather than breaking ground and leaving problems behind
- Attentive to detail, collaborative by nature, and genuinely open to asking questions and sharing knowledge with teammates
- Committed to writing well-tested, well-documented code that future engineers will appreciate rather than dread
- Flexible to business pressures and constraints — understanding that great engineering serves real business needs, not the other way around
Selected FT Partners Transaction Highlights — The Deals Behind This Platform
- Divvy’s $2.5 billion sale to Bill.com — coordinated entirely through FT Partners’ internal systems
- GreenSky’s $2.2 billion sale to Goldman Sachs
- Revolut’s $800 million financing at a $33 billion valuation
- DailyPay’s $75 million financing at a $1.8 billion valuation
- Bilt’s $200 million financing at a $3.1 billion valuation
About FT Partners
Financial Technology Partners (FT Partners) is the world’s leading fintech-focused investment bank — exclusively dedicated to the financial technology sector. Led by Managing Partners and Directors with pedigrees from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, FT Partners has advised on some of the most significant transactions in fintech history, from billion-dollar M&A deals to early-stage high-growth VC financings. Recognised as Investment Bank of the Year and Boutique of the Year, FT Partners offers its team unparalleled exposure to world-class executives, groundbreaking fintech companies, and the entire financial technology ecosystem — with clear career progression and competitive compensation in a close-knit, growing team environment.
Career Excellence: Build the internal platform that powers one of fintech’s most elite investment banks — and grow your engineering career at the intersection of AI, full-stack development, and institutional finance in San Francisco.
Who Should Apply?
- Full-Stack Python/React Engineers: With 5+ years building reliable, well-structured web applications and strong Django or DRF experience
- AI-Fluent Software Engineers: Who use AI development tools daily and can verify, explain, and take full ownership of AI-generated code
- Fintech Platform Engineers: Experienced building mission-critical internal applications that serve high-stakes, finance-adjacent business operations
- Bootcamp Graduates with 2+ Years Experience: With strong Python/TypeScript skills and a portfolio demonstrating production-quality web application development
- Systems-Minded Engineers: Who care deeply about code quality, test coverage, documentation, and the long-term maintainability of the systems they build
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