Software Engineer, AI-Driven Trading Platform

AllianceBernstein; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AllianceBernstein seeks a software engineer to help build and operate a FastAPI-based platform powering trading, analytics, risk, and back-office workflows. You will develop internal AI tools and Snowflake-based agents enabling traders to explore firm data via natural language.

You’ll design scalable APIs for trades, positions, exposures, and investor accounting, and integrate LLM capabilities into applications and document workflows. Join a distributed team across Minneapolis and Nashville.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Python and production API skills.
• Solid SQL skills and Snowflake or data warehouse experience.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• Familiarity with Docker, Redis, and background job systems is ideal.
• Interest in or experience with LLMs and AI features (prompting, RAG, agents).
• Experience with relational databases and ORMs (PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy).
• Strong testing practices and focus on maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate a FastAPI-based platform for trading, analytics, risk, and back-office workflows.
• Develop internal AI tools and Snowflake-based agents for data exploration.
• Design scalable APIs across trades, positions, exposures, and investor accounting.
• Create data services on Snowflake with performance and usability focus.
• Integrate LLM capabilities (AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex) into apps and workflows.
• Connect systems across the stack with BI tools and AWS services.
• Implement background processing pipelines (Redis Queue) for reporting.
• Define and manage infrastructure using Terraform and AWS.
• Maintain high code quality with testing, CI/CD, and standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable systems.

Skills

Python

APIs

SQL

AWS

CI/CD

Testing

Tools

Snowflake

Looker

Sigma

Terraform

Docker

Redis

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

Job description

AllianceBernstein seeks a software engineer to help build and operate a FastAPI-based platform powering trading, analytics, risk, and back-office workflows. You will develop internal AI tools and Snowflake-based agents enabling traders to explore firm data via natural language.

You’ll design scalable APIs for trades, positions, exposures, and investor accounting, and integrate LLM capabilities into applications and document workflows. Join a distributed team across Minneapolis and Nashville.