Remote Backend Engineer: Fintech APIs & AI Tools

Finstock, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Finstock, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to help build, maintain, and scale our AI-powered financial research and market intelligence platform.

This remote role prioritizes candidates located in the United States and involves backend and full-stack work across APIs, data integrations, and analyst workflows. You will collaborate with engineering, product, data, AI, and analyst teams to deliver secure, observable software.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building production-grade APIs and backend services.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Frontend or full-stack experience with React/Next.js/Angular/Vue.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain features for Finstock's financial research and market intelligence platform.
• Develop secure, reliable, and scalable backend services and APIs.
• Build and improve user-facing product workflows, dashboards, and analytics features.
• Integrate market data and research metadata into product workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on planning, reviews, and improvements.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

Full-stack

Remote collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

React

Next.js

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

Job description

Remote Full-time United States preferred Backend / Full-stack Fintech

Software Engineer

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

Remote — United States preferred Full-time employee USD $105,000–$145,000 annual base salary, depending on experience, technical depth, location, and role fit

Software engineering workspace

Product focus

Software, APIs, product workflows, dashboards, and research infrastructure

Location

Employment type

Expected commitment

Full-time

Compensation

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

Reporting line

Engineering Lead

Collaboration tools

Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365, GitHub, cloud platforms, and company-approved productivity tools

About Finstock, Inc.

Finstock, Inc. builds AI-powered financial research, trading analytics, quantitative research, and market intelligence tools for experienced market users, analysts, research teams, and institutions.

Our products rely on reliable software systems, scalable APIs, secure data workflows, responsive user interfaces, and high-quality engineering practices across financial research, analytics, and market intelligence use cases.

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.

This is a remote role with a preference for candidates based in the United States. Candidates in other countries may be considered where Finstock, Inc. is able to engage them in compliance with applicable employment, tax, data protection, and operational requirements.

Key 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.

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

You may work on projects such as:

• 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 Finstock’s 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.

This is a software engineering role supporting financial research infrastructure, product systems, and internal engineering workflows.

The role does not require or permit the employee to:

• Provide personalized investment, legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice to users or clients.
• Recommend that any individual buy, sell, or hold a security based on personal circumstances.
• Execute trades or manage client funds.
• Handle client assets, deposits, or payments.
• Promise or imply investment returns, trading profits, or risk-free outcomes.
• Use unauthorized data sources, violate third-party data terms, or bypass licensing restrictions.
• Request applicants to pay any application fee, training fee, software fee, equipment fee, or onboarding fee.

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.

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Financial software / fintech experience *

GitHub profile URL or technical portfolio link *

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Which programming languages and frameworks do you use most confidently, and how have you used them in production? *

Describe your experience with APIs, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring. *

Have you worked with financial data, AI-assisted products, LLM/retrieval systems, or secure enterprise workflows? Explain briefly. *

Describe a production incident or difficult technical issue you investigated and resolved. *

Additional notes

Role Application

Apply for this role

Submit your information for the Software Engineer role.

Open Full name * Email address * Country / region * Current city / time zone * Phone number * LinkedIn profile URL * Resume/CV link * Are you able to work remotely in compliance with the legal and eligibility requirements applicable to your location? * Years of professional software engineering experience * Current or most recent role * Expected annual compensation * Availability / earliest start date * Financial software / fintech experience * GitHub profile URL or technical portfolio link * Technical documentation or architecture sample link Cloud / deployment platform experience * Software engineering skills * Infrastructure, security, and operations experience * Relevant certifications Describe a production software system, API, or full-stack application you helped design or build. What was your responsibility and what technical trade-offs did you make? * Which programming languages and frameworks do you use most confidently, and how have you used them in production? * Describe your experience with APIs, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring. * Have you worked with financial data, AI-assisted products, LLM/retrieval systems, or secure enterprise workflows? Explain briefly. * Describe a production incident or difficult technical issue you investigated and resolved. * Additional notes I confirm that the information I provide is accurate and that I understand this role does not involve giving personalized investment advice, executing trades, managing client funds, or bypassing security, authorization, confidentiality, or approved-data requirements. I acknowledge that I have read the Applicant Privacy Notice . I would like Finstock, Inc. to retain my application for consideration for future roles where permitted by applicable law.