Conviction

Anyone Can Trade

Founding Engineer

$150K - $210K0.50% - 2.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
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Tony Yamin
Tony Yamin
CTO

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 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.

About Conviction

Conviction
Founded:2025
Batch:S25
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Aria Vikram
Aria Vikram
CEO
Tony Yamin
Tony Yamin
CTO