
Founding Engineer
San Francisco, CA at a glance
- Rent
- #2 of 51$2,680/mo+46% vs US avg
- Weather
- #17 of 51295 mild days0 hot · 0 cold
- Income tax
- #1 of 5113.3% top rateCalifornia
What you need
- AWS infrastructure: ECS ALBs, S3, RDS
- Backend systems: concurrency, multithreading, async programming
- Production-grade agentic systems experience
- PostgreSQL: schema design, indexing, query optimization
- Docker, Git, CI/CD with GitHub Actions
What you'll do
- Design and ship scalable features and MVPs
- Develop backend systems on AWS and containerized services
- Build agentic systems for financial research and trading
- Improve financial data pipelines for research and trading
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 datasets
Previous 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.
Optimize your resume for this job
Get a match score and the keywords you're missing
About Conviction
Conviction lets you create and discover trading ideas, then monitors the market and acts on them for you. Start with any idea you have - or discover one from traders you follow on X or Reddit - and turn it into a strategy in natural language. Backtest it, paper trade it, deploy it and share what you learn.
Similar Software roles


