JD: Software Engineer (AI / Data Platform) – Remote

<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold">About the Role</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">We are building an AI-powered financial research platform focused on real-time insights from SEC filings, market data, and sector intelligence across mining, industrials, and beyond.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Our platform combines large-scale data pipelines, search infrastructure, and LLM-driven workflows to power an AI stock research assistant, internal analytics systems, and investor-facing tools.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">We’re looking for a strong engineer who can </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">own systems end-to-end from</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> data ingestion to APIs to production deployment and help scale a live platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">You’ll work directly with a high-impact team, with real ownership and the ability to influence technical direction.</span></p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold">What You’ll Do</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Build and scale an </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">AI-powered stock research assistant</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> that processes SEC filings and financial data in real time</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Design and maintain </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">data pipelines</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> for ingesting and transforming large-scale financial datasets (EDGAR, market data, etc.)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Develop </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">backend systems and APIs</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> powering search, analytics, and AI workflows</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Implement and optimize </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">semantic search systems</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> using embeddings and vector databases</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Build </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">internal tools and dashboards</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> for analytics, content performance, and investor insights</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Improve </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">performance, reliability, and scalability</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> across production systems</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Take ownership of features from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">design to implementation, deployment, monitoring.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold">Required Skills</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Strong backend experience with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Python (FastAPI or similar)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Solid knowledge of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">SQL (Postgres/MySQL)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> and data modeling</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Experience building and maintaining </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">production-grade APIs</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Hands-on experience with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">AWS (EC2, RDS, or similar services)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Experience with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">data pipelines / ETL systems</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Good understanding of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">system design and scalable architectures</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Familiarity with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">vector databases</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Experience with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">LLM-based systems or AI applications</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Knowledge of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Docker, CI/CD, or cloud deployments</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold">Nice to Have</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Exposure to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">financial data / SEC filings (EDGAR), metals and mining data </span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Experience building </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">analytics dashboards or internal tools</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold">What We Look For</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Strong ownership mindset </span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Ability to debug and solve problems independently</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Clean, maintainable, production-quality code</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Comfort working in a fast-moving, unstructured environment</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Clear communication in a remote team</span></li> </ul>

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