AI Engineer

About the Company

We're an early-stage Fintech + AI startup backed by seasoned investors from the financial and technology sectors. Our mission is to reinvent how users interact with modern financial tools by combining AI-driven intelligence with high-performance trading and investment infrastructure.

We're assembling our founding engineering team — a small, world-class group of builders ready to shape the company’s technology, product, and culture from day one.

Role Overview

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and building the backbone of our platform — from data pipelines and trading infrastructure to AI-powered analytics and user interfaces. This role is ideal for someone who loves autonomy, technical depth, and fast iteration.

What You' ll Do

• Architect and develop scalable backend systems in Python, Go, Node or Rust.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.) for speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Design APIs and data services that power real-time financial insights and trading systems.
• Collaborate with product and design to build high-impact user experiences.
• Prototype and deploy AI/ML models in production environments.
• Define engineering best practices and help grow the early tech team.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong academic background or proven hands-on experience — whether from a top school, or from building real things that matter.
• Prior experience at fintech, trading, or AI companies such as J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Robinhood, TradingView, Webull, Futu, or similar.
• Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, data engineering, or backend architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Comfortable in fast-paced startup environments; bias for action and ownership.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or modern DevOps stacks.
• Experience deploying AI/ML or quantitative trading systems.
• Previous leadership or mentorship experience.
• Interest in financial innovation, crypto, or DeFi (optional).

Location

• Based in or open to relocating to the Bay Area / San Francisco.
• Hybrid or flexible work arrangements are possible.

Compensation Package

• Base salary: 20,000 - 30,000 per month
• Equity: 0.25 – 1.0 %
• Bonus: up to 10–20 % of base (cash and equity)
• 401k
• Medical Insurance

*This is a hybrid working arrangement, however candidates do have to be based out of San Francisco.*