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  • 6+ years

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$200,000 - 300,000/ year

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About the Role

Join a small, early-stage team building AI-driven technology for financial markets. In this founding-level role, you will own projects from initial idea through production, contributing to systems that support market research and trading.

Responsibilities

  • Take ideas from exploration through implementation and production across the trading technology stack.
  • Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure.
  • Develop automated execution systems and tools that help the team move quickly from idea to live experiment.
  • Work with quantitative and AI researchers on approaches to market prediction.
  • Contribute across trading infrastructure, machine learning, and security as team needs evolve.

Requirements

  • One to five years of full-time experience as a software engineer or quantitative developer.
  • A degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or physics.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python or C++, including ownership of a project from ideation through production.
  • Experience applying technical or AI work to production products and downstream problems.
  • Background in quantitative development, trading systems, data infrastructure, systematic research, high-frequency trading, crypto, or fintech.
  • Market or trading knowledge alongside software engineering depth, plus strong statistical intuition and comfort with noisy real-world data.
  • Experience with AI-driven development and the ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

Conditions

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site in Palo Alto, California.

Where you’d work

From the office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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  • Industry: FinTech

Office in Palo Alto, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and you'd be among the first.

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  • 7 good signs
  • 3 red flags

Still hiring?

11 checks

Actively hiring

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • States its salarySlight evidence

Against it1

  • Listed again after an earlier listing of the same role closedModerate evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Low

In its favour3

  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • In the office in Palo Alto: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Senior level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence

Against it2

  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence
  • Pays more than 81% of similar roles: that draws applicantsSlight evidence

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Details13 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company
Tech stack
  • Python
  • C++
Seniority
Staff
Type
Full-time
Industry
FinTech
Specialty
Backend
Region
United States
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Seniority
Staff
Experience
6+ years
Tech stack
  • Python
  • C++

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • Palo Alto, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$200,000 - 300,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
FinTech

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