Software Engineer

Remote Full‑time (United States preferred) Backend / Full‑stack Fintech Software Engineer

Overview

Build secure, scalable software, APIs, product workflows, dashboards, and research infrastructure for Finstock’s AI‑powered financial research and market intelligence platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain software features for the financial research and market intelligence platform.
• Develop secure, reliable, and scalable backend services, APIs, and internal systems.
• Build and improve user‑facing product workflows, dashboards, research tools, and analytics features.
• Integrate financial market data, company data, research metadata, and approved third‑party APIs into product workflows.
• Collaborate with data engineers, AI engineers, product managers, analysts, and designers to translate product and research requirements into production‑ready software.
• Write clean, maintainable, tested, and well‑documented code.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, technical planning, and engineering design decisions.
• Improve application performance, reliability, observability, error handling, and security.
• Help build tools that support analyst workflows, financial research automation, charting, data review, and market intelligence features.
• Troubleshoot production issues, investigate bugs, and support incident resolution when required.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows, testing standards, documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Ensure software development follows internal security, privacy, confidentiality, and data‑handling requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, backend engineering, full‑stack engineering, or a related technical role.
• Experience building production‑grade APIs, backend services, web applications, or internal engineering tools.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar systems.
• Familiarity with frontend or full‑stack development using frameworks such as React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, or similar tools.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or similar environments.
• Understanding of software architecture, testing, debugging, version control, API design, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
• Comfortable working with Git, GitHub, CI/CD tools, issue tracking systems, and remote engineering workflows.
• Strong problem‑solving ability, ownership mindset, and attention to engineering quality.
• Strong written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a remote environment.
• Professional commitment to data security, confidentiality, and responsible handling of financial and user‑related data.
• Ability to work remotely in compliance with applicable laws and eligibility requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with fintech products, financial market data, investment research platforms, trading analytics, or capital markets infrastructure.
• Familiarity with financial data concepts such as equities, ETFs, indices, FX, crypto assets, commodities, fundamentals, filings, corporate actions, and market data APIs.
• Experience with Python‑based financial tools, data processing libraries, or analytics workflows.
• Experience with Node.js, FastAPI, Django, Flask, NestJS, GraphQL, or similar backend frameworks.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, MongoDB, vector databases, or time‑series databases.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, observability tools, and cloud deployment workflows.
• Experience supporting AI‑assisted products, LLM features, search systems, retrieval systems, or research automation tools.
• Experience building secure user‑scoped workflows, permission systems, audit trails, or enterprise SaaS features.
• Interest in financial research, market intelligence, AI‑assisted workflows, and quantitative analytics.

What You Will Work On

• Building APIs and product features for financial research and market intelligence workflows.
• Creating user‑facing dashboards, research tools, charting features, and internal analyst tools.
• Integrating market data, financial statements, corporate actions, news, and research metadata into product systems.
• Building secure user workspace features and permission‑aware data access workflows.
• Improving backend performance, system reliability, monitoring, and production stability.
• Supporting AI‑assisted research features with clean application logic, retrieval workflows, and reliable user experiences.
• Helping engineering and product teams scale the platform as the company grows.

What You Will Gain

• Opportunity to build software for an AI‑powered financial research and market intelligence platform.
• Direct collaboration with product, engineering, AI, data, and regional analyst teams.
• Exposure to financial market data, research workflows, analytics tools, and AI‑assisted product development.
• Remote work with a distributed international team.
• A company email account and access to approved work tools, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, GitHub, and company‑approved productivity tools, subject to internal security and usage policies.
• Opportunity to participate in company offsite activities, including possible Hong Kong offsites, subject to business schedule, travel eligibility, visa/documentation requirements, and company approval; approved business‑related travel, accommodation, and reasonable expenses will be covered by the company.

Restrictions

• Providing personalized investment, legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice to users or clients is not permitted.
• Recommending that any individual buy, sell, or hold a security based on personal circumstances is prohibited.
• Executing trades or managing client funds is not allowed.
• Handling client assets, deposits, or payments is not part of the role.
• Promising or implying investment returns, trading profits, or risk‑free outcomes is disallowed.
• Using unauthorized data sources, violating third‑party data terms, or bypassing licensing restrictions is forbidden.
• Requesting applicants to pay any application, training, software, equipment, or onboarding fee is prohibited.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Finstock, Inc. considers qualified 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.