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If that sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, let’s create it together.\nWe’re building AI-powered wealth management. Investments, taxes, retirement, estate planning, all in one platform instead of scattered across different advisors and apps. We're backed by Google's Gradient Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Scale Venture Partners, and more. We’re growing fast while still small enough that everyone's work is visible and impactful.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a software engineer who understands the user's problem, architects a solution, and ships it. Sometimes the same day. Your work lives in production, not in a design doc.\nAt this stage, every IC engineer at Range can operate as a 10x IC. There is very little stopping you from building.\nYou'll use AI workflows to move faster alongside the team and customers, bringing the best solutions to life. We think really big and ship fast, without lowering the bar on quality. You'll define how engineering operates here by figuring out what's actually possible when a great engineer leans all the way into AI.\nYour architecture and your code will be how this company scales. When you build something that works, we move. Engineers at Range are catalysts, turning ideas into real products and creating momentum. That's how we lead. Ship fast, learn, iterate.\nWho you are\nA builder. You go from problem to prototype to production. You don't wait for a perfectly scoped ticket or a sprint planning meeting. You see the gap and you close it.\nCraft-obsessed. You've studied how the best companies build software and have real opinions about what makes it great. Your standards are high. What you ship is clean, secure, and considered, even when you ship it fast.\nIntuition-driven. You've done enough reps to trust your gut on architecture decisions, move quickly, and be right far more often than you're wrong. When the requirements aren't clear, you use judgement to evaluate tradeoffs. Always finding a way to move.\nAI-native. You're already using AI every day as core infrastructure. You see it as the thing that turns one engineer into ten.\nFull-stack by instinct. Frontend, backend, infrastructure. You go wherever the problem is. React, TypeScript, Node, AWS are your tools, not your identity. You pick up whatever's needed.\nYou care about outcomes. Every endpoint, every interaction, every system is built around how your customers will actually experience the product.\nWhere you lead at this level\nYou demonstrate leadership through ownership of impactful projects, mentorship, or managing others. You encourage calculated risks across the team - fostering a culture of bold thinking and innovation while staying open to learning from failures. You model resilience and optimism, helping the team see challenges as opportunities and stay solutions-focused under pressure. You use good judgment to balance team needs, individual growth, and company objectives. As a manager, you promote radical transparency by setting clear expectations and offering constructive, actionable feedback.\nNot for you if\nYou need a fully scoped PRD before you can start working\n\nYou're offended by the idea that AI changes everything about this job\n\nYou'd rather debate architecture than ship and iterate\n\nYou optimize for consensus over conviction\n\nYou think \"move fast\" means lower the bar\n\nWhat we’re looking for\nDeep expertise across multiple languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, etc) and paradigms, with strong opinions loosely held on technology choices\n\nExtensive experience architecting and evolving production systems on AWS or similar cloud platforms, with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence\n\nProven ability to work across the entire stack and make strategic decisions about where to invest engineering effort\n\nTrack record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that materially impact the business\n\nExperience setting technical vision and strategy beyond a single team - influencing roadmaps, platform direction, and organizational engineering practices\n\nAbility to navigate organizational complexity, build consensus across engineering and business leadership, and drive alignment on high-stakes technical decisions\n\nProven ability to architect, debug, and ship using AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) - not just prompting, but knowing when the output is wrong, why, and how to fix it\n\nStrong mentorship track record - you've meaningfully grown the careers of other engineers\n\nWhat will set you apart\nExperience designing systems that scale with the business over years, not just the current quarter\n\nExperience building and evolving frontend platforms and design systems used across multiple product surfaces\n\nDeep product sense - you identify the highest-leverage technical investments and connect engineering work to business outcomes\n\nAbility to take broad, ambiguous company-level challenges and translate them into concrete engineering strategies\n\nTrack record of introducing new technologies, practices, or architectural patterns that transformed how a team or organization operates\n\nSecurity engineering experience, especially in building secure-by-default platforms\n\nFintech experience, especially navigating regulatory and compliance constraints at the systems level\n\nStartup experience, especially as a technical leader who shaped engineering culture from early stages\n\nCompensation\nBase salary range: $200,000 - $300,000\nThis is the base salary range we expect in good faith to pay for this role at the time of posting. Where an offer lands within the range depends on the scope and complexity of work the candidate can own independently and demonstrated depth at this level.\nOther compensation and benefits\nThe range above reflects base salary only. Our offer packages also include equity in the form of stock options, so total compensation for this role will exceed the base salary range.\nWe do not ask for or consider salary history. You are welcome to ask questions about compensation at any point in the process.\nBenefits\nHealth & Wellness: 100% employer-covered medical insurance for employees (75% for dependents), plus dental and vision coverage\n\n401(k): Retirement savings program to support your future\n\nPaid Time Off: time to reset and recharge + most federal holidays\n\nParental Leave: Comprehensive leave policy for growing families\n\nMeals: Select meals covered throughout the week\n\nFitness: Monthly movement stipend\n\nEquity & Career Growth: Early exercise eligibility and a strong focus on professional development\n\nAnnual Compensation Reviews: Salary and equity refreshes based on performance\n\nBoomerang Program: After two years at Range, you can take time away to start your own company. We’ll hold your spot for 6 months - and pause your equity vesting, which resumes if you return\n\nRange is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 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