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# Lead Software Engineer at Eloquent AI

- **Company:** Eloquent AI
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eloquentai/381a8982-c6e1-403e-bcff-557b3ca25c83

## Job description

## MEET ELOQUENT AI

At Eloquent AI, we’re building the next generation of AI Operators—multimodal, autonomous systems that execute complex workflows across fragmented tools with human-level precision. Our technology goes far beyond chat: it sees, reads, clicks, types, and makes decisions—transforming how work gets done in regulated, high-stakes environments.

We’re already powering some of the world’s leading financial institutions and insurers, fundamentally changing how millions of people manage their finances every day. From automating compliance reviews to handling customer operations, our Operators are quietly replacing repetitive, manual tasks with intelligent, end-to-end execution.

Headquartered in San Francisco with a global footprint, Eloquent AI is a fast-growing company backed by top-tier investors. Join us to work alongside world-class talent in AI, engineering, and product as we redefine the future of financial services.

## Your Role

As a Lead Engineer at Eloquent AI, you will lead the development of AI-powered full-stack applications while overseeing and mentoring other engineers. You’ll remain hands-on across the stack, but also take ownership of technical direction, code quality, and delivery standards.

You’ll work closely with engineers, AI researchers, and product teams to ensure scalable, reliable systems that power real-time AI-driven workflows. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, leadership capability, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, AI-first environment.

You will:

- Design and build full-stack applications that power AI-driven workflows for enterprise users.
- Oversee and review the work of other engineers, ensuring high-quality, production-ready code.
- Provide technical guidance, architectural direction, and hands-on support where needed.
- Develop high-performance front-end interfaces for AI agent control, monitoring, and visualisation.
- Build scalable backend services that support real-time AI interactions, knowledge retrieval, and automation.
- Work closely with AI researchers and ML engineers to integrate LLMs, RAG, and automation into production-ready systems.
- Establish engineering best practices across testing, deployment, and performance optimisation.
- Continuously iterate and refine AI-driven products, balancing speed with robustness.

## REQUIREMENTS

- 8+ years of hands-on experience building full-stack production applications.
- Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
- Backend experience using Python.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and scalable architectures.
- Understanding of AI-powered applications (LLMs, chat interfaces, agentic workflows).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, and AI teams.

Bonus Points If…

- You have experience building AI-powered applications with LLM integrations.
- You’ve worked in high-performance startups or enterprise AI environments.
- You have a sharp eye for UI/UX design and have built intuitive, AI-driven interfaces.
- You have experience with GraphQL, WebSockets, or real-time data streaming.
- You’ve contributed to open-source projects or have built developer tools for AI.

## About Eloquent AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eloquent AI builds autonomous AI Operators for financial services that automate complex, regulated customer operations by observing existing workflows without requiring APIs or engineering effort.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, raised $10M seed round)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with an office in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Tugce Bulut and Dr. Aldo Lipani

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services (Banking, Fintech, Insurance)
- **Target customers**: B2B, specifically regulated financial institutions including banks, fintechs, and insurance companies (Enterprise segment)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the operating system for companies running in the age of AI, freeing people from repetitive work so they can spend their time on something better. The company’s tagline: *"Work should not feel like a loop."* [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/)

## Products & Services
- **AI Operator for Financial Services**: An autonomous AI agent that learns to navigate existing systems by observing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and human actions. It can automate up to 96% of complex, regulated customer service tasks (e.g., account unfreezing, AML/KYC checks, loan repayment adjustments, policy re-issuance, debt recovery, cash advance management) without any APIs or engineering integration. It is deployable in weeks, supports chat, voice, and email, and includes built-in compliance guardrails, an audit trail, and a proprietary LLM (Oratio) trained on financial regulations. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/) [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai)
- **Evals Framework & Oratio Fin Model**: A proprietary evaluation and compliance system that uses simulators and counterfactual evaluators to rigorously test and approve modifications before deployment. The Oratio Fin model is a specialized LLM trained specifically on financial regulations to ensure auditable, compliant decision-making. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $500K ARR achieved in just four weeks from launch; 11x ARR growth in the first year. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai) [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)
- **Total Funding**: $10 million seed round raised shortly after launch. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Spring 2025 batch). Lead investors not named on the careers page, but the company is YC-backed. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: Onboarded major banks and fintechs in under a year; demand is described as "accelerating fast." The company is actively hiring across 12 open positions in San Francisco and London. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **No-Integration Deployment**: Unlike generic AI agents that require cumbersome API integrations and long development cycles, Eloquent AI learns by simply observing existing workflows (SOPs) and team actions. This allows deployment in weeks, not months, with no engineering effort required from the customer.
- **Purpose-Built for Regulated Industries**: The company is exclusively focused on financial services, with a proprietary LLM (Oratio) trained on financial regulations. This gives it a deep, defensible moat in a high-stakes, high-compliance market where generic AI models cannot operate safely.
- **Data Privacy & Security**: The platform offers private deployment in a customer’s VPC or on-premises, and explicitly states that customer data is never used to train its models. PII is encrypted in transit and at rest, with customizable redaction. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/)
- **Proven Traction**: Hitting $500K ARR in four weeks and growing 11x year-over-year with major financial institutions as customers demonstrates strong product-market fit and rapid enterprise adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Team**: The company is in a hypergrowth phase, actively building out its engineering, product, and deployment teams across San Francisco and London to match accelerating demand.
- **Deepen Financial Services Vertical**: Continued focus on automating increasingly complex, multi-party workflows within banking, fintech, and insurance, with a strong emphasis on compliance and auditability.
- **Product Expansion**: Likely expanding the capabilities of its AI Operator to cover more use cases and integrate more deeply with existing enterprise systems, all while maintaining its no-engineering, observation-based approach.

## Why Work Here
- **High Impact**: The systems built directly automate critical, regulated operations for major financial institutions, freeing people from repetitive work. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)
- **Full Ownership & Autonomy**: Small team with high autonomy; engineers own what they ship end-to-end. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)
- **Hypergrowth Environment**: 11x ARR growth in a year, $10M seed funding, and accelerating demand. The company is at a very early stage (team size of ~5 as of YC batch), offering significant upside and influence. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers) [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai)
- **Top-Tier Compensation**: Competitive salary and meaningful equity; the careers page specifically mentions "company offsite in Italy." [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/On-site in San Francisco (on-site for most roles) and Remote for some roles in London. Specific roles list "On-site" (SF) or "Remote" (London). [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers) [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai/jobs)
- **Founding Team**: Led by a second-time entrepreneur (Tugce Bulut, who previously scaled Streetbees to 200 people and $80M in funding) and a Machine Learning professor (Dr. Aldo Lipani from UCL). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai)

## Sources
1. [eloquentai.co](https://www.eloquentai.co/)
2. [eloquentai.co/careers](https://www.eloquentai.co/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eloquent-ai/jobs)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eloquentai)

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