Software Engineer - AI Applications - Eleven Recruiting - New York, NY
Eleven Recruiting
About Eleven Recruiting
We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place.
Our client, an investment firm, is seeking a Software Engineer, AI Applications to join their team in New York, NY!
Responsibilities:
• Integrate LLM-powered features — including search, summarization, and workflow automation — into an existing product, working within established codebases and UI patterns.
• Design a data and metadata layer that makes AI outputs explainable, auditable, and reusable across teams.
• Set engineering patterns for how AI capabilities are built, tested, evaluated, and maintained going forward.
• Scope and ship near-term, high-ROI agentic workflows — such as automated meeting prep briefs, pipeline summaries, and relationship intelligence digests.
• Build backend services and APIs that synthesize internal data, activity history, and context into client-ready outputs.
• Take on additional projects and responsibilities as needs evolve across the engagement.
Qualifications:
• 5–8 years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or fullstack foundation.
• 2+ years of focused experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications to production — not just prototypes.
• Solid understanding of how to integrate AI capabilities into existing systems: APIs, data pipelines, and product codebases.
• Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines, prompt engineering at scale, and LLM evaluation.
• Pragmatic product sensibility — able to identify what is worth building, scope it tightly, and ship it.
Preferred:
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI.
• Domain exposure in financial services — credit