About Conviction
Anyone Can Trade. Backed by Y Combinator.
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 they're looking for
- 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
More about this 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.
- 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
- 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...
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