About Keru.ai

We're building the first visual, transparent, and interactive deep-research platform.

Our platform is industry-agnostic, but we're starting with finance. Financial services manages $26.5 trillion in assets, yet professionals spend 60-70% of their time manually gathering data from scattered sources. Keru.ai automatically ingests dozens of sources (SEC filings, expert calls, alternative data) and deploys AI agents that conduct deep research while creating interactive decision trees. The agents surface insights and connections that would take analysts hours to find. Analysts explore and modify findings in real-time, then export deliverables like presentations and reports, all with full audit trails showing exactly how conclusions were reached.

Keru.ai was founded by two Palantir veterans with 20 years of combined experience building core parts of Palantir's Gotham and Foundry Platform. Our founders created Palantir Quiver, the analytics engine behind $100M+ enterprise deals with BP and Airbus, architected core compute and data systems, led major Department of Defense projects, and served as Head of Business Engineering at Citadel.

We're backed by founders of OpenAI, Facebook AI, MotherDuck, DBT, and Outerbounds.

The Role

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Keru, you'll architect and build the core platform that powers our AI-native research experience. You'll own the complete user journey—from intuitive React interfaces that financial professionals love to robust backend systems that process billions of data points in real-time.

You'll live our core principle of 'Forward-Deployed with Product DNA' - building platform features that directly solve real customer problems while maintaining the scalability and reliability needed to serve the entire market. Your code will power research workflows that drive million-dollar investment decisions across our lighthouse financial clients.

This role is ideal for engineers who want to build foundational technology at the intersection of AI and finance, where strong code architecture powers an exceptional user experience and directly impact our clients' ability to make critical business decisions.

What You'll Do

• Frontend Excellence & User Experience: Build sophisticated React applications with TypeScript that financial professionals rely on for critical research. Create intuitive interfaces for complex data visualization, AI-powered insights, and seamless integration workflows using modern design systems and Tailwind CSS.

• Backend Systems & API Development: Design and implement scalable code that orchestrates AI workflows, manage complex data pipelines, and integrate with enterprise financial tools.

• Full-Stack Feature Development: Own complete features from concept to production - designing React components, implementing backend services, optimizing database queries, and ensuring seamless end-to-end functionality.

• Platform Architecture & Scalability: Build systems that scale from prototype to enterprise, implementing caching strategies, optimizing database performance, and architecting microservices that handle high-volume financial data processing.

• AI Integration & Workflow Engineering: Integrate cutting-edge language models and AI capabilities into production applications, building intelligent research workflows that augment human decision-making with AI insights.

• Enterprise Integration Development: Build robust integrations with financial platforms (Bloomberg Terminal, CapIQ, internal trading systems) using modern web technologies and enterprise authentication protocols.

• Performance Engineering: Optimize application performance across the full stack - from React component rendering and bundle optimization to database query performance and API response times.

• Product Development Collaboration: Work closely with product and design teams to translate user requirements into technical architecture, participating in user research sessions and iterating based on real client feedback.

• Production Excellence: Implement comprehensive testing strategies, monitoring, and deployment pipelines. Own the reliability of features you build from development through production operations.

What We're Looking For

• A future technical startup founder

• 4+ years of full-stack development experience with a proven track record of shipping production applications at scale

• Modern Frontend Expertise: Advanced proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern CSS frameworks (Tailwind CSS preferred). Experience with state management (Redux/Zustand), testing frameworks (Jest/Vitest), and build tools (Vite/Webpack).

• Backend Development Skills: Strong experience with Node.js, Python, or similar backend technologies. Proficiency in API design, database modeling (PostgreSQL/MongoDB), and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

• Full-Stack Architecture: Experience designing and implementing complete application architectures, from database schema to React component hierarchies. Understanding of performance optimization across the entire stack.

• Enterprise Application Experience: Background building applications for enterprise customers, including experience with authentication systems, role-based access control, and enterprise security requirements.

• Data-Driven Development: Experience working with large datasets, building data visualization interfaces, and integrating with analytics platforms or data processing pipelines.

• Financial Services Exposure: Previous experience building applications for financial firms, understanding of financial workflows, or familiarity with financial data platforms (preferred but not required).

• Modern Development Practices: Experience with Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and agile development methodologies.

• Technical Communication: Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and engineering teams. Comfortable discussing technical trade-offs and architecture decisions.

• Product Mindset: User-focused approach to development with experience gathering requirements, iterating based on feedback, and building features that solve real customer problems.

• Startup Experience: Thrives in fast-paced environments where you'll work across the full technology stack and directly impact product direction and company growth.

Mentorship & Growth

You'll be directly mentored by engineers who built Palantir's core systems. Expect:

• Weekly 1:1s with senior engineers who've architected enterprise-scale distributed systems

• Deep architectural reviews and guidance on agent system design

• Clear growth path toward technical leadership and system ownership

• Learn by building—production agentic systems that power real financial research

At Keru, mentorship accelerates strong systems engineers into exceptional technical leaders.

Our Technical Stack

• Backend: Python, Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis

• AI/ML: OpenAI/Anthropic/OpenRouter Vector Databases

• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Temporal, Kubernetes, Kafka, Apache Airflow

• Monitoring: Datadog,

• Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, Pulumi

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 401k, insurance for employees and dependents

• Automatic coverage for basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance

• Daily lunch in office

• Development environment budget - latest MacBook Pro, multiple monitors, ergonomic setup, and any development tools you need

• Unlimited PTO policy

• "Build anything" budget - dedicated funding for whatever tools, libraries, datasets, or infrastructure you need to solve technical challenges, no questions asked

• Learning budget - attend any conference, course, or program that makes you better at what we're building

Keru.ai's Operating Principles

Forward-Deployed with Product DNA: We own customer outcomes, while building a product company. We don't win if our customers don't win. That means embedding, iterating, and deploying where our customers are.

Extreme Ownership: We have a big vision and everyone owns it. If you notice a problem, you own it - diagnose, coordinate, and close the loop. Authority comes from initiative, not job titles, and once you step up, you're accountable for the outcome.

Production-First Engineering: We design for customers' most critical workloads from day one. The platform runs on durable execution paths, blue/green deploys, automated rollbacks, and a continuous-delivery pipeline with end-to-end observability, so every change lands safely and stays resilient under real-world load.

Trust as the Default: We operate on the simple premise that people do their best work when confidence is mutual and earned in the open. That means we show our work, keep our promises, and flag risks before they bite. Automated tests, uptime dashboards, and clear communication back our competence; predictable delivery proves our consistency; candid retros and honest trade-offs reveal our character. Put together, trust isn't an aspiration, it's the baseline everyone can count on.

Keep Raising the Bar: We block time for training, code-health sprints, and deep-dive tech talks, because a sharper team and a cleaner stack pay compounding dividends. Continuous learning isn't a perk, it's part of the job.