# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Finvest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/finvest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, LLMs, Ai Systems
**Posted:** 2025-03-24

> Senior backend engineer designs and owns core infrastructure including multi-agent LLM architecture for AI-powered wealth management. Works with massive financial datasets and collaborates on user experiences. Requires 5+ years backend experience, Node/TS/Python fluency, and distributed systems expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build Finn, the first AI-powered wealth manager.
- Design and own the core backend infrastructure, including multi-agent LLM architecture for financial reasoning, simulations, and user interactions.
- Work with massive financial datasets at scale, inventing systems for LLMs to interpret, evolve, and act on billions of real-world data points.
- Push boundaries of AI in money management, from autonomous financial planning to market-aware agentic systems.
- Collaborate with frontend, design, and founding team to craft world-class user experiences.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer developing and deploying production-level backend systems.
- Experience with LLM models and AI-driven systems (or strong willingness to work on LLM-powered applications).
- Fluent in **Node/Typescript**, **Python**, **Postgres**, and **AWS**.
- Proven ability to architect complex distributed systems with experience in **Kafka**, **Redis**, **Kubernetes**.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems, diagnosing and preventing them.
- Comfortable taking ownership, building new systems from scratch, and iterating quickly in a startup environment.

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