Software Engineer - Fintech & AI Platform
Location: Remote - United States preferred
Employment Type: Full-time
Compensation: USD $105,000–$145,000 annual base salary
Reporting to: Engineering Lead
About Finstock
Finstock, Inc. builds AI-powered financial research, trading analytics, quantitative research, and market intelligence tools for experienced investors, analysts, research teams, and institutions.
Our platform combines reliable software systems, scalable APIs, secure data workflows, responsive user interfaces, and AI-assisted research capabilities to support financial analysis and market intelligence.
About the Role
We are looking for a Software Engineer to help build, maintain, and scale Finstock’s financial research and market intelligence platform.
You will work across backend services, APIs, product features, data integrations, internal tools, dashboards, and user-facing research workflows. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, data, AI, design, and financial analyst teams to turn business and research requirements into secure, production-ready software.
This is a remote position, with a preference for candidates based in the United States. Candidates in other countries may also be considered where Finstock can engage them in compliance with applicable employment, tax, data protection, and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain features for Finstock’s financial research and market intelligence platform.
- Develop secure, reliable, and scalable backend services, APIs, and internal systems.
- Build and improve dashboards, research tools, analytics features, and user-facing product workflows.
- Integrate market data, company information, financial statements, research metadata, analytics outputs, and approved third-party APIs.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data teams, AI engineers, analysts, and designers.
- Translate product and research requirements into maintainable, production-ready software.
- Write clean, tested, well-documented, and reusable code.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, technical planning, and engineering design decisions.
- Improve system performance, reliability, observability, security, and error handling.
- Troubleshoot production issues and support incident investigation and resolution.
- Contribute to CI/CD workflows, automated testing, documentation, and engineering standards.
- Follow internal security, privacy, confidentiality, and data-handling requirements.
Required Qualifications
- At least 3 years of professional experience in software engineering, backend engineering, full-stack engineering, or a related role.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as:
- Python
- TypeScript or JavaScript
- Java
- Go
- C#
- Experience building production-grade APIs, backend services, web applications, or internal engineering tools.
- Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar systems.
- Familiarity with frontend or full-stack frameworks such as React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud environment.
- Understanding of:
- Software architecture
- API design
- Authentication and authorization
- Testing and debugging
- Version control
- Secure coding practices
- Experience using Git, GitHub, CI/CD tools, issue-tracking systems, and remote engineering workflows.
- Strong problem-solving ability, attention to engineering quality, and ownership mindset.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote environment.
- Commitment to protecting financial, company, and user-related data.
- Ability to work remotely in compliance with the legal and eligibility requirements applicable to your location.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly valued:
- Fintech products, financial market data, investment research platforms, trading analytics, or capital markets infrastructure.
- Financial data concepts, including equities, ETFs, indices, FX, crypto assets, commodities, fundamentals, filings, and corporate actions.
- Python-based financial tools, analytics workflows, or data-processing libraries.
- Backend frameworks such as Node.js, FastAPI, Django, Flask, NestJS, or GraphQL.
- PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector databases, or time-series databases.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and cloud deployment workflows.
- Monitoring, observability, application security, and incident response.
- AI-assisted products, LLM features, retrieval systems, search platforms, or research automation tools.
- Enterprise SaaS features, permission systems, secure user workspaces, or audit trails.
- Quantitative analytics, financial research, or market intelligence.
What You May Work On
- APIs and product features for financial research and market intelligence workflows.
- User-facing dashboards, charting tools, research interfaces, and internal analyst tools.
- Integrations for market data, company fundamentals, corporate actions, financial statements, news, and research metadata.
- Secure user workspaces and permission-aware data-access systems.
- Backend performance, monitoring, system reliability, and production stability.
- AI-assisted research features, retrieval workflows, and reliable application logic.
- Infrastructure and engineering systems that support the continued growth of Finstock’s platform.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to build an AI-powered financial research and market intelligence platform.
- Direct collaboration with engineering, product, AI, data, and regional analyst teams.
- Exposure to financial market data, research workflows, quantitative analytics, and AI-assisted product development.
- Remote work within a distributed international team.
- A company email account and access to approved tools, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, cloud platforms, and other company-approved productivity tools.
- Potential participation in company offsites, including possible Hong Kong offsites, subject to business requirements, travel eligibility, visa or documentation requirements, and company approval.
- Coverage of approved business-related travel, accommodation, and reasonable expenses.
Important Role Boundaries
This is a software engineering position supporting product systems, financial research infrastructure, and internal engineering workflows.
The role does not require or permit employees to:
- Provide personalized investment, legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice.
- Recommend that an individual buy, sell, or hold a security based on their personal circumstances.
- Execute trades or manage client funds.
- Handle client assets, deposits, or payments.
- Promise or imply investment returns, trading profits, or risk-free outcomes.
- Use unauthorized data sources or bypass third-party licensing restrictions.
- Circumvent security, confidentiality, authorization, or data-protection requirements.
Finstock does not charge applicants any application, onboarding, training, software, or equipment fees.
Equal Opportunity
Finstock, Inc. considers applicants based on role-related skills, experience, technical ability, work quality, availability, and applicable engagement requirements.
We do not make hiring decisions based on age, gender, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, race, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
- Build secure, scalable technology at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and financial research. Apply to join Finstock.