Founding Engineer

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.

See the posting on Conviction's site