# Founding Engineer at Conviction

- Company: Conviction (YC S25)
- What the company does: Anyone Can Trade. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://convictiontrade.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conviction/jobs/dKyC4hT-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/conviction-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 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

Tags: Engineering