Software Engineer

About the role

We are hiring a Software Engineer to help build, maintain, and scale Finstock’s financial research and market intelligence platform. In this role, you will work across backend services, APIs, product features, data integrations, internal tools, and user-facing workflows. You will collaborate with engineering, product, data, AI, and analyst teams to deliver reliable software that supports financial research, market analytics, and decision-support workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain software features for Finstock’s 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, analytics outputs, 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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, backend engineering, full-stack engineering, or a related technical role.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Go, or C#.
• 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.

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.

Benefits

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.

Pay

USD $105,000–$145,000 annual base salary, depending on experience, technical depth, location, and role fit.

Schedule

Full-time employee.