Software Engineer, Internal Tools/AI

Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we’ve become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.

We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We are hyper focused on building a product people love and continuing to evolve based on user feedback.

As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM – 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.

Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.

Monarch is seeking a Software Engineer with a focus in internal tools and AI to join our Platform team during a period of rapid growth. Reporting directly to the Head of Software Infrastructure, you will design, build, and scale the internal tools that power both our engineering organization and greater business teams. This role is at the intersection of AI, automation, and developer experience and your work will directly shape how every engineer at Monarch builds, ships, and operates software. You will support high-impact projects like enhancing our internal CLI, building AI-assisted developer tools, and integrating automation across our platform.

• Design, develop, and maintain internal tools such as our internal CLI, GitHub Actions, and Slack bots to streamline engineering workflows.

• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate AI-powered developer tools that improve productivity, code quality, and operational efficiency.

• Build and enhance internal APIs to support cross-team automation, integrations, and developer platform capabilities.

• Monitor, iterate, and improve tools post-deployment to ensure performance, usability, and adoption across the organization.

• Collaborate with all engineering and business operations teams to identify pain points and deliver solutions that remove friction.

• 4+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on internal tools, developer productivity, or platform engineering.

• Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and API development.

• Experience with full-stack development (React, TypeScript, or similar) for internal dashboards or web-based tools.

• Proven track record using or integrating AI/ML tools (e.g., OpenAI API, LangChain) in a professional setting.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and developer platform best practices (GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines).

• Experience with Slack bot development and Slack API integrations.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and AWS environments.

• Knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Sentry) for performance monitoring.

• Contributions to open-source developer tools projects.

• Exposure to multi-environment architecture and internal API gateways.

• Recruiter Video Call

• Hiring Manager Video Call

• Take Home Assignment

• Virtual “onsite” consisting of 3 rounds

• Reference Checks

• Offer!

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.

• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.

• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.

• Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).

• Unlimited PTO.

• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.