Senior Software Engineer, Vanilla
AI Applications
$150-200k
+ performance based bonus and equity
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Estate planning platform for wealth advisors
Job no longer available
Estate planning platform for wealth advisors
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-200k
+ performance based bonus and equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Vanilla's mission is to help everyone create a meaningful legacy.
Role
Who you are
- Vanilla is seeking an AI Engineer with a strong background in software development, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
- If you’re a proactive problem-solver who lives to disrupt archaic processes with cutting-edge technology, this job is for you
- You are passionate and knowledgeable about the current and future state of AI
- Hands On Coding: You have direct experience with software engineering and are familiar with modern languages like Python, Javascript, Go, Rust
- Data handling: You can identify, extract, transform, and load data from disparate sources into a centralized system. You are able to normalize, cleanse, and validate this data
- Database management: You are able to design and implement schemas, optimize queries, and manage database performance
- Project management: You must be an effective self-organizer: prioritize tasks, manage resources, and communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders
- Collaboration: We are one team. You must be able to collaborate with engineers, subject matter experts, product managers, and designers to ensure the success of projects
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years relevant work experience
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Python or Javascript
- Experience integrating with backend services, and APIs
- Experience using software like OpenAI/ChatGPT
- Strong knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language) for querying and manipulating data
- Experience in data normalization, data cleansing, and data validation techniques
- Deep understanding of machine learning and AI technologies, including the ability to design, train, and implement machine learning models and use natural language processing techniques for automation
- Experience with API design and implementation for accessing data from external sources
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
What the job involves
- You'll be working with a group of diverse designers, developers, operations managers, and attorneys, all of whom share a passion for building beautifully designed products and making complex processes user friendly
- As an AI Engineer, you will work collaboratively with engineering and subject matter experts to find innovative and disruptive uses of AI to streamline (or replace) workflows
- You will be utilizing existing Large Language Models to build applied AI applications focused on producing high accuracy rates. Your software engineer skills will come into play here as you'll take ownership in constructing services to ingest results
- You will work with product, and engineering teams and build models/services that can ingest data, extract key information and surface insights
- You can drive technical vision and leverage open source technologies and cloud services to build an AI/ML platform
- You can build tooling to support model training, evaluation, inference serving, monitoring and alerting
- You want to use the latest ML frameworks and open source tools to develop new model training pipelines
Our take
Estate planning - in which the management of a person's estate is arranged for their future passing or incapacity - is an important but complicated process, often slowed down by archaic protocol. Vanilla supplies a platform for wealth advisors to create documentation, as well as monitor and visualize estate planning, so that they can speed up and optimize their processes to better serve their clients.
Vanilla's comprehensive and fully digital platform is the first of its kind, leveraging vast industry experience to support legacy operations from start to end. It is able to simplify even the most complicated estates, and display clear information on how assets will be passed down, as well as any changes that occur over time.
With the gargantuan size of the estate planning market, Vanilla should be afforded plenty of room to grow its operations into the future. The company has raised considerable funding towards accelerating expansion, as well as broadening its product offering and development.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2024
$35m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$4.8m
SEED
Total funding: $81.4m
Company benefits
- Remote & hybrid options
- Fast-paced environment
- The autonomy to self-direct and self-manage your workday, spending less time in meetings and more time focusing on meaningful work
- Work collaboratively with talented people across the country
- Use the skills you’ve honed to develop a first-of-its-kind product at a startup that cares more about industry longevity than spectacle
Company HQ
Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT
Leadership
Steve Lockshin
(Founder)Also the Founder of AdvicePeriod, and a Board Member at PATHWATER and Just Invest. Former Chairman/CEO and Founder of Convergent Wealth Advisors.
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