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Staff Software Engineer, Finance Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build one front door for every finance event with exactly-once posting.
  • Design an append-only ledger and accounting engine for continuous close.
  • Run real-time tax and collections services used in the billing flow.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues

Ideal candidate

Backend builder who cares about correctness to the cent and thrives turning complex accounting and controls needs into clean distributed systems, collaborating with finance and engineering partners.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering in a statically typed language such as Go, Java or Rust, or Python at scale
  • Experience designing and running high-volume, event-driven systems with idempotent processing, replay and backfill
  • Experience designing relational data models and writing SQL for complex, versioned data
  • Experience designing APIs, SDKs and service-to-service integrations used by other teams
  • Experience building systems with auditability, access control or compliance requirements
  • Experience turning requirements from non-engineering partners into technical designs
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including design docs

Lab profile

About Anthropic

AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.

What they build

  • Claude
  • Claude API
  • Claude Code

Known for

  • AI safety and alignment
  • Model interpretability research
  • Frontier LLM development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2021
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Backed by Amazon and Google
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