Lead Full-Stack & Quant Systems Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a hands-on Lead Full-Stack & Quant Systems Engineer to help build the technology infrastructure behind a growing investment and technology business.

This role combines full-stack development, quantitative trading systems, AI integration, and technical ownership. You’ll work directly with the founder to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready software — from a polished public-facing website to an automated trading system and a central management platform.

The ideal candidate enjoys both high-level architecture and hands-on implementation, with an eye for visual detail and a strong understanding of backend systems, infrastructure, security, and real-time data.

What You’ll Do

• Refine the website’s design, functionality, responsiveness, and performance across desktop and mobile.
• Set up and integrate a quantitative trading system, connecting trading logic, market data, exchange APIs, and execution services.
• Build a central management application for monitoring:
• Trading positions
• Balances
• Performance
• System health
• Operational activity
• Implement essential trading controls such as exposure limits, alerts, audit logs, and emergency stop functionality.
• Integrate AI models and agents where they can provide practical value in analysis, automation, and internal workflows.
• Develop secure backend services, databases, authentication, and role-based access.
• Manage deployment, testing, monitoring, and ongoing technical improvements.
• Work directly with the founder to translate business and technical ideas into clear priorities and working software.
• Document your work and build maintainable systems that can evolve with the business.

What We’re Looking For

• Demonstrated experience building and shipping full-stack websites or applications.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and Python skills.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks and backend APIs.
• Strong understanding of databases, third-party integrations, real-time data, and asynchronous systems.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications on Linux servers.
• Comfortable working with Git and container-based development/deployment workflows.
• Strong understanding of security when handling credentials, permissions, financial data, and sensitive operations.
• Excellent attention to detail and an eye for visual quality.
• Strong independent problem-solving and technical judgment.
• Clear communication and the ability to make sensible decisions around scope, reliability, and delivery.

Especially Valuable Experience

The following would be strong advantages:

• Experience with exchange APIs, automated trading, or financial platforms.
• Understanding of backtesting, paper trading, transaction costs, slippage, and execution reliability.
• Experience integrating LLMs, AI agents, or locally hosted AI models.
• Experience building interactive dashboards.
• Experience with advanced web animation or 3D web experiences.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means delivering:

• A polished, responsive, and reliable website.
• A quantitative trading system that can be tested, monitored, and controlled.
• A management application that makes complex trading and business operations easy to oversee.
• Well-documented, maintainable technology that can evolve as the business grows.

Why Join?

• Work directly with the founder and have meaningful input into core technical decisions.
• Take ownership across full-stack development, AI, infrastructure, and quantitative trading technology.
• See your work become a central part of the business.
• Opportunity to contribute to a broad technical environment rather than a narrowly defined engineering function.
• Contractor engagement with the possibility of transitioning to a full-time position with founder privileges, subject to mutual agreement.

Application

Please provide your CV or professional profile, along with links to relevant projects or GitHub repositories.

When applying, highlight:

• What you personally built and your level of ownership.
• Any experience with trading systems or financial technology.
• AI/LLM or agent integrations.
• Operational dashboards or management applications.
• Your availability.
• Your compensation expectations.