Equi
Founding Engineer, Applied AI Lead
New York (on-site)
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 180 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNext.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLGCPDockerGraphQLData EngineeringLLMsRAGProduct StrategyExcelLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- You will be the backbone of engineering at Equi, driving projects from ideation through execution across AI-powered systems, customer-facing applications, and internal tools.
- Equi is a team-first environment where transparency and healthy debate are integral to our success.
- We operate with a flat structure, ideas win on merit, not seniority, and every team member is expected to contribute to the conversation.
Responsibilities
- Lead Builder Across the Company
- Serve as the primary engineer and technical leader, building software solutions that accelerate growth across all teams
- Partner directly with the Investment Team, Operations, and GTM to identify high-impact opportunities for technology and automation
- Design, implement, and maintain performant and reliable APIs and backend services
- Develop exceptional user experiences for clients and partners
- Use AI to perform investment analysis and provide recommendations to the human investment team
- Build workflows to automate human actions across the investment process
- Develop RAG-based intelligence systems to power internal and external applications
- you'll build RAG-based intelligence, automate complex investment workflows, and create new customer-facing applications on top of our data infrastructure.
- This is a rare opportunity for someone fascinated by sophisticated investment strategies who wants to build technology that powers a rapidly scaling platform.
Requirements
- Full-Stack Proficiency: Proven track record of designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining complex full-stack web applications in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Typescript, Next.js, and Python
- Product Acumen: Demonstrated ability to think critically about product strategy, understand user needs and pain points, and effectively translate them into technical solutions
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Defining Our Ideal Candidate: Key Traits in Action
Nice to have
- Prior experience working in fintech, investment technology, or financial services
- Specific experience designing and scaling large-volume data pipelines or complex distributed systems on GCP
- Experience using containerization technologies like Docker and API middleware like GraphQL
- Familiarity with advanced data modeling techniques
- Experience with RAG systems, LLM integration, or AI agent development
Skills
- Solid understanding of data pipeline concepts (ETL/ELT) and data warehousing principles
Benefits
- The role will evolve from hands-on building to eventually growing and leading the engineering team, while maintaining our vision of a small, flat organization where everyone stays close to the work.
- Our vision for engineering is to keep the team small and flat, where everyone remains involved in building rather than adding layers of management.
Company info
- Equi is seeking a Founding Engineer and Head of Applied AI to serve as the lead builder across the entire company.
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