About the role
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.
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Job details
Salary
$90,000 - $210,000
Equity
0.5% - 2%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
