Senior Engineer

About AspenAspen is an AI agent built to run marketing, sales, and client servicing for financial advisors. We’re replacing the traditional marketing role with intelligent automation, enabling advisors to generate personalized content, run sophisticated email campaigns, manage client relationships, and execute automated workflows, all powered by AI. Every advisor who joins makes the platform smarter, and we’re building the future of how financial services professionals grow their firms. We're a small, profitable team, self-funded and generating seven figures in revenue. No outside investors, no runway pressure. We move fast and build things that matter.About the roleThis is an engineering role with strong product ownership, not a traditional PM or pure engineering role. You’ll own your own development process end-to-end: shaping priorities with the founders, breaking them into tickets, shipping features using AI coding tools, and presenting your work weekly. You’ll report directly to the founder/CEO. This is not a fit if you need someone else to define your tickets or manage your process.You’ll use AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) daily to execute tickets, ship features, QA your own work, and debug issues on our React/TypeScript + Supabase stack. If you’ve built and shipped this way before, you’ll feel right at home.What you’ll doAI & Agents (primary focus)Own and evolve how Aspen uses AI, agents, and RAG-based knowledge retrieval to generate advisor-specific marketing outcomes.Improve prompt engineering, context injection, and retrieval pipelinesDefine the product strategy for AI features — what gets automated, what stays human-in-the-loop, and how the system gets smarter over timeDrive continuous improvement in output quality and personalizationMarketing automation (primary focus)Build and improve the automation engine (workflows, triggers, sequences)Own email deliverability, segmentation, templates, and analyticsManage integrations (SendGrid, Calendly, Zapier, webhooks)Sprint execution & buildingPlan and prep weekly sprints. Break work into clear tickets with acceptance criteriaShip features yourself using AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)Open PRs, QA your work, debug issues, and push to productionPresent shipped work in weekly product reviewsTake ownership of product stability, monitor for errors, respond to incidents, and contribute to security and compliance efforts, including SOC 2 readinessDiscovery & strategyParticipate in occasional advisor conversations to stay close to how the product is being used and surface insights that inform what you buildFlag patterns and friction points to the founders to help inform roadmap decisionsUse data to validate that what you’re shipping is actually working — feature adoption, engagement, error ratesWhat you must have5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with a portfolio of shipped products or features you built yourselfStrong technical ability: write SQL, read and debug React + TypeScript code, and work within Supabase/PostgreSQL databasesExperience shipping AI/LLM features in production (prompting, embeddings, RAG, APIs)Deep experience with marketing automation systemsExperience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, etc.) to build and shipSelf-directed — you own your development process from ticket creation to production without needing process managementEnough product sense to ask the right questions before building — you think about outcomes, not just outputsComfortable operating in ambiguity at an early-stage companyStrong plusesExperience with Supabase, PostgreSQL, or backend-as-a-service platformsFamiliarity with the Anthropic Claude API specificallyBackground in email marketing platforms (SendGrid, Mailchimp, HubSpot, etc…)Knowledge of vector databases, semantic search, or graph-based automationExperience in financial services, wealth management, or compliance-aware product developmentCompensation & benefitsBase salary: $110,000–$140,000, depending on experienceSign-on bonusAnnual bonus29 days off per year — 12 PTO days (growing with tenure), 12 paid holidays, and 5 sick daysLearning stipendHealth benefits via ICHRA (monthly tax-free health insurance allowance)In-office role in Charlotte, NC — Small team, high ownership, direct access to the foundersInterview processIntro callTake-home projectTechnical screenTeam interview