Founding Python Real-Time Systems Engineer - AI Trading

RedTech Recruitment Ltd.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

RedTech is seeking a Founding Software Engineer in New York to lead core pricing and real-time decisioning systems. You will partner with the founders to build production-grade Python infrastructures for pricing engines and data pipelines.

This first engineering hire offers substantial ownership, equity up to 2%, and the opportunity to shape architecture across trading platforms while delivering measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend, systems or platform engineering
• Proven end-to-end experience building scalable, Python-based real-time pricing or trading systems and data pipelines
• Experience designing and operating data-intensive production platforms
• Extensive use of agentic AI development workflows to accelerate development while maintaining production quality
• Clear examples of building new systems or products from concept through to production with measurable business impact
• Track record of rapid career progression and increasing technical ownership
• Strong data intuition and ability to connect technical decisions with commercial outcomes
• Experience in technology companies with strong engineering standards
• Confident communicating ideas and adapting when an approach does not work
• Able to work from the New York office five days per week
• Able to work in the US without employer visa sponsorship or a visa transfer
• Experience in financial or market-making environments, a CS degree or related interest beneficial

Responsibilities

• Build and own pricing engines, bidding systems and supporting data infrastructure
• Develop scalable Python systems supporting real-time trading decisions
• Turn interactive AI-assisted research into continuously running research pipelines
• Build A/B testing frameworks to evaluate pricing improvements
• Improve bidding throughput, reliability and production performance
• Develop AI-powered tools for operational triage and incident response
• Implement model drift detection and monitoring
• Work directly with the founders to prioritize engineering projects and measure their commercial impact

Skills

Python

Real-time systems

Pricing platforms

Data pipelines

AI workflows

End-to-end development

Production systems

Communication

Finance industry

New York office

Education

Computer Science degree

Job description

RedTech is seeking a Founding Software Engineer in New York to lead core pricing and real-time decisioning systems. You will partner with the founders to build production-grade Python infrastructures for pricing engines and data pipelines.

This first engineering hire offers substantial ownership, equity up to 2%, and the opportunity to shape architecture across trading platforms while delivering measurable business impact.