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Founding Engineer

Conviction · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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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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