Luminary - Software Engineer - Backend

Remote/Hybrid; New York, NY or San Francisco, CA - Hybrid$170k - $225k+ Equity2w ago

Remote NA Software Engineer Backend Engineer Go Honeycomb Temporal GraphQL

Requirements

• Four or more years of software engineering experience, at companies with strong engineering practices. Beyond that: • You prefer domain complexity to infrastructure complexity. The hard part here is modeling an intricate real-world system correctly, not scaling a queue. • Rigorous about correctness. You think in edge cases, and you're uncomfortable shipping logic you can't verify. • Product-minded. You want to know why a calculation matters and who depends on it. You'll be shaping requirements, not receiving them.

Responsibilities

• Own the modeling engine. Transfer tax computation, waterfall and distribution modeling, and the consolidation work that brings our calculations under one engine. • Own the modeling engine. • Model the domain flexibly and thoughtfully. Trusts and estates are complex and have a lot of moving parts. Data modeling is a really important part of this role. • Model the domain flexibly and thoughtfully. • Make correctness checkable. You'll work with our JDs and CPAs to validate against how practitioners compute things. We regularly talk to various state attorneys general to dig into the nitty-gritty of how specific interactions work in their tax code. • Make correctness checkable. • Support our agents. Extraction and agentic workflows are only as good as the data model they write into. We don't want agents doing any math, so we expose this deterministic layer (and the ability to do hypothetical modeling) via tools. • Support our agents. • Our backend is Go, Postgres, Temporal, and GraphQL • Our monitoring is mostly in Honeycomb, Braintrust, and PostHog • You communicate well. With half the team remote, overcommunication is the name of the game! • You communicate well.

Benefits

• $170K – $225K • Offers Equity • Luminary is the AI-native system of action for wealth transfer services. • High net worth households controlling more than $90 trillion in assets are meaningfully underserved by technology that was built for the mass market. As private client investment and banking products have commoditized, these clients are looking for more tax and wealth transfer advice, advice that has previously been impossible to deliver at scale. • Luminary solves this problem by transforming complex estate planning and ownership documents into a structured, proprietary data asset that powers verticalized, agent-driven workflows for tax and wealth transfer services. Our built-in multi-firm collaboration connects a client's full advisor ecosystem, and is the core infrastructure that enables our customers to deliver a highly personalized, end-to-end wealth transfer service offering at scale. • Our 1,000+ customers are leaders across the private client services ecosystem: wealth managers from exclusive multi-family offices through top private banks and trust companies, national tax advisory practices, and law firms among the AM Law 100. Our focus and proprietary data position us to expand from a wedge in wealth transfer advice into large adjacent markets including trust administration and estate distribution. • Founded and led by CEO David Barnard, former Head of Wealth Management at AllianceBernstein, Luminary is backed by 8VC, Fin Capital, Rockefeller Capital, Focus Financial Partners, and several family offices. • How we work • Every engineer ships to production multiple times a day. We make small, reviewable changes that go out through CI as soon as they're ready. • Every engineer ships to production multiple times a day. • Modern tooling. Meticulous, Amp, Honeycomb, Temporal, PostHog, Braintrust. We keep the team small and invest in tooling for leverage. • Modern tooling. • Engineers own outcomes. You'll talk to customers and feel their wins and pain points, sit with our in-house subject matter experts, and help us build a great business. • Engineers own outcomes. • We support both remote and in-office preferences. We have an office in NYC near Bryant Park and a lively in-office culture, but if remote works better for you, you'll be in good company. • We support both remote and in-office preferences. • You'll be one of a small, senior team of engineers building a complex and high-value product. You'll get a lot of trust and responsibility early on. • You'll work closely with our CEO, Head of Engineering, and Head of Product. • You'll help build foundational product in a nascent category, with a lot of room to expand into large adjacent markets. • You'll ship constantly and hear fast feedback from customers. • We earnestly believe that Luminary represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive impact at profitable scale, and to have a ton of fun along the way. • We believe firmly that happy, healthy employees do their best work. To that end, we offer: • 👩🏻‍⚕️ 100% employee health insurance coverage (plus 50% dependent coverage) • 🧘🏽‍♀️ Monthly wellness, commuter, and educational stipends • 🏖️ 4 weeks PTO, plus holidays • 🏢 NYC office near Bryant Park, for those who want it. Remote-friendly by default. • 👶 Parental leave policy • Base salary range of $170k–$225k, plus meaningful equity. Actual compensation depends on many factors, including relevant experience and skillset. • $170k–$225k • At this time, Luminary is unable to sponsor employment visas or provide immigration support.