Software Engineer – Backend

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🕒 August 17

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $170k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Luminary

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Healthcare • Legal

Luminary is a software development company focused on revolutionizing estate planning for wealth managers. With a mission to streamline the estate planning process, Luminary addresses inefficiencies that lead to over a billion dollars in annual costs while facilitating the access to over $100 billion in family and philanthropic giving capacity each year. Founded in 2022 and led by experienced industry professionals, the company is backed by venture capital firm 8VC.

📋 Description

• Own the modeling engine, including transfer tax computation, waterfall and distribution modeling, and consolidation work • Model trusts and estates flexibly and thoughtfully through complex data modeling • Work with JDs and CPAs to validate calculations against practitioner methods • Investigate nuanced tax-code interactions with state attorneys general • Expose a deterministic computation layer and hypothetical modeling capabilities through tools for extraction and agentic workflows • Ship small, reviewable changes to production multiple times a day through CI • Talk to customers, understand their needs, and shape product requirements • Collaborate with the CEO, Head of Engineering, Head of Product, and in-house subject matter experts

🎯 Requirements

• Four or more years of software engineering experience at companies with strong engineering practices • Preference for domain complexity and modeling intricate real-world systems • Rigorous approach to correctness, edge cases, and verifiable logic • Product-minded approach to shaping requirements and understanding business impact • Backend experience with Go, Postgres, Temporal, and GraphQL • Experience with Honeycomb, Braintrust, and PostHog is relevant to the monitoring stack • Ability to communicate effectively in a partially remote team • Willingness and ability to learn the wealth-transfer domain from JDs and CPAs • Luminary is unable to sponsor employment visas or provide immigration support

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% employee health insurance coverage • 50% dependent health insurance coverage • Monthly wellness stipend • Monthly commuter stipend • Monthly educational stipend • 4 weeks PTO, plus holidays • NYC office near Bryant Park • 401(k) plan • Parental leave policy • Meaningful equity • Remote-friendly by default