Software Engineer, Platform

Department: Engineering

Location: New York City, San Francisco

Compensation: $170K – $270K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

What We Do

Rillet serves accounting and finance teams, the financial brains of their companies. Our job is to help them run the numbers with impossible speed, accuracy, and insight.

Rillet is the AI-native ERP built for modern finance teams. We help companies automate the most critical parts of finance, from closing the books and recognizing revenue to consolidating entities and reporting to investors. More than 600 companies run on Rillet, including Mercor, Scribe, and Function Health, and we partner with leading accounting firms including EY and KPMG.

This huge market is ours to take. We’ve raised $200M+ from Sequoia, a16z, ICONIQ, Bain Capital Ventures, Oak HC/FT, and other leading investors to build the financial infrastructure for the next generation of companies and help every business run its numbers at the speed of AI.

Who We Are

Rillet’s pace is not for everyone. Intelligence is table stakes. To succeed here, you need extreme speed, agency, and flexibility.

The people who thrive at Rillet do not wait for assignments. They internalize the mission, design a strategy, and bring back results that are better, faster, and more creative than a manager could have asked for.

Our work revolves around our customers. The people who succeed here are energized by delivering what matters most, even when it was not part of the original plan.

Rillet is built on deep accounting expertise, and it takes people from many disciplines to build a category-defining company. You do not need to be an accountant to thrive here. You do need to care deeply about the problems we solve and the impact our customers can create. Together, we combine the precision of accounting with the speed, creativity, and ambition of AI-native software to power the financial core of the world’s fastest-growing companies while redefining what finance teams should expect from their software.

Who We Need

Experienced engineers who've made infrastructure a competitive advantage — not just reliable plumbing. You've owned the systems that let product teams ship with confidence, you think in tradeoffs, and you care deeply about how a team builds, not just what ships.

We're building industry-defining accounting and finance software. Our platform needs to scale with us, and we want an engineer who brings a point of view to that work.

Our Tech Stack: Svelte 5/TypeScript frontend, Kotlin + Spring Boot backend, PostgreSQL, AWS. We're AI-native — meaning thoughtful application, not outsourced thinking. Our engineers still reason from first principles; AI helps with execution.

We’re looking for teammates who are based near our New York City or San Francisco offices, or open to relocating. Our hybrid schedule brings the team together in person on Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus one additional flexible day each week. Some roles may spend more time in the office depending on the needs of the team.

What You'll Do

• Own the infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling that keeps our engineering team shipping fast and safely at scale

• Set the technical direction for reliability, security, and compliance — building these in from the ground up rather than bolting them on later

• Shape the design and scalability of our external API, turning it into a competitive asset for customers and partners

• Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmap priorities and translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans

• Raise the bar for engineering quality through design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on collaboration

Who We're Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record on complex, large-scale projects

• Deep expertise in AWS — this is our primary cloud and you'll own it

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, observability tooling, and distributed systems

• Comfortable making technical decisions and navigating hard tradeoffs at whatever scope your role demands

• Energized by building in a fast-moving environment where the playbook is still being written

Bonus Points

• Experience building or maintaining third-party integrations (ERP, fintech, or similar)

• Background in fintech, ERP, or accounting software

• Experience owning and scaling public-facing APIs

• Familiarity with enterprise readiness (SOC 2, SSO/SAML, audit logging, or similar)

• Kotlin, Java, or TypeScript experience

• Prior experience at a high-growth startup
  

Life at Rillet

• Grow with us. Take meaningful ownership, expand your scope, and make an impact as Rillet scales.

• Competitive pay and meaningful equity. Be rewarded for the value you help create.

• Benefits that support you. We offer competitive benefits designed to support your health, wellbeing, time away from work, family, and long-term financial goals.

• Better together. We value collaboration, connection, and spending meaningful time together as a team. We regularly create opportunities to connect through team meals, events, and company gatherings.