Conviction · San Francisco, CA, US · In-office · Posted 10d ago
$150k - $210k
Anyone Can Trade
As a Founding Engineer, you will work directly with the founders to build production-grade multi-agent systems, backend infrastructure, and financial data systems that power research and live trading.
### **What You’ll Do**
* Technical Development – Design and ship new features, MVPs, and scalable solutions that deliver direct value to customers * Full Stack Development – Develop backend systems with a focus on scalability & improve infrastructure across AWS, databases, and containerized services * AI/ML Applications – Develop agentic systems that power financial research and trading workflows * Data Engineering – Build and improve financial data pipelines powering research and trading systems, working with large financial datasets
### **Qualifications & Experience**
* Experience with AWS infrastructure: ECS ALBs, S3, RDS * Experience building backend systems: concurrency, multithreading, or asynchronous programming * Experience building production-grade agentic systems * Experience with application security, system reliability, and performance fundamentals * Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals: schema design, indexing, query optimization, and connection pooling * Experience with Docker, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or an equivalent platform * Experience with machine learning * Understanding of financial markets, trading strategies, or financial datasets
Previous experience at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, asset manager, fintech company, market data provider, or quantitative research group is a plus, but not required.