Applied AI Engineer - FinTech, End-to-End AI Systems

SNV Elite; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SNV Elite in New York is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to shape how AI transforms institutional finance. You will build production-grade AI-powered applications, infrastructure, and workflows used by hedge funds and asset managers.

This is a highly hands-on 0→1 engineering role across the full stack, partnering directly with investment teams to turn complex financial workflows into intelligent software and owning architecture and delivery.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python production API development.
• Hands-on experience building modern web applications, ideally with React.
• Genuine interest and practical experience with AI/LLMs and modern AI tooling.
• Familiarity with agentic workflows, AI orchestration, MCP, or similar emerging AI technologies.
• Experience building data pipelines, APIs, and production systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and production-quality development.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and move quickly in an ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Build LLM-powered features for research intelligence, natural-language interfaces, automated summarization, and agentic workflows.
• Design and develop AI orchestration systems, agent pipelines, tools, and MCP-connected data sources.
• Build end-to-end full-stack applications for financial research, portfolio analytics, risk management, and investment workflows.
• Develop high-performance Python APIs and backend services (e.g., FastAPI).
• Create responsive React frontends for complex financial data and workflows.
• Design and maintain ETL/data pipelines handling market data, positions, securities, risk metrics, and research signals.
• Implement data-processing workflows using Pandas and Polars.
• Deploy and operate applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Collaborate with users to understand problems, gather feedback, and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Make thoughtful build vs. buy decisions to leverage existing platforms and infrastructure.

Skills

Python

API development

React

AI/LLMs

Kubernetes

FastAPI

Pandas

Polars

Data pipelines

Cloud environments

Job description

SNV Elite in New York is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to shape how AI transforms institutional finance. You will build production-grade AI-powered applications, infrastructure, and workflows used by hedge funds and asset managers.

This is a highly hands-on 0→1 engineering role across the full stack, partnering directly with investment teams to turn complex financial workflows into intelligent software and owning architecture and delivery.