Founding Engineer

About Conviction

Anyone Can Trade

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 datasetsPrevious 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.