Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Development
Total Expert, Dallas, TX
- Pay
- $130K–$180K / year
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Jun 24, 2026
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About the role
Total Expert is the Customer Operating System for financial services. Our purpose-built platform combines a system of context with a system of action that enables humans and AI Assistants to engage in the moments that matter and earn customers for life. Since 2016 Total Expert has enabled more than seven trillion dollars of funded loan volume.
The role
We’re hiring Software Engineers who build production software through AI coding agents and design the system that makes that reliable. This posting has no level and no years requirement on purpose. If you have the evidence, we want to talk, whether you’re two years in or twenty. You’ll write specs, not boilerplate. You’ll review, test, and own what ships. Most of your code will be generated. All of it will be yours.
Why this role, why now
Total Expert builds the customer engagement platform that banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders use to turn data into relationships. Our customers are regulated, run on systems they can’t rip out, and need software that fits how their people work. The code has to be right the first time it touches a customer.
Execution isn’t expensive anymore. Engineers who treat agents as their primary way of building are shipping faster than people with twice their tenure, and the gap is widening. We want those engineers, and we want them to raise how the whole team builds.
This is a hybrid role based in our Dallas, TX office. We ask that you live within commuting distance or be willing to relocate at your own expense.
What you'll be doing:
- Ship production features with agents writing most of the code. You own the spec, the verification, the review, and the result. If it breaks, it’s yours.
- Build and maintain the harness. Instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md), skills and commands, MCP tools, hooks, and the tests, linters, type checks, and security scans the agent has to pass before you ever look at a diff.
- Decompose before you delegate. Turn ambiguous business problems into small, verifiable slices an agent can execute. Plan first. Review the plan before any code exists.
- Hold the quality line. Tests before implementation. Review for correctness and design, not just syntax. Security and compliance by default. Observability on everything that ships.
- Measure what works. Track cycle time, defect escape rate, and rework on agent-generated code, and change the harness when the numbers say to.
- Make the team faster. Turn your setup into the team’s setup. Teach it, document it, pair on it.
- Get close to customers. Watch how loan officers and marketing teams actually use what you build, and let that change what you build next.
- Build the thing nobody asked for. When you see a business problem worth solving, bring a working prototype, not a proposal.
How we level
One posting, every level. We don’t screen on years because years no longer predict impact in this kind of work. Your title, level, and place in the compensation range are set at offer from what you’ve shipped, the harness you’ve built, and how you handle the agent being wrong. An engineer with three years and that evidence will level above a fifteen-year veteran without it.
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