Who You Are
We're looking for a builder with technical depth, product judgment and leadership instincts, who measures everything they ship.
Required
- Experience: 5+ years of professional software development, with growing responsibility and impact
- Passion for Investing: Experience can't substitute for an innate curiosity and passion for the world of investing. We operate in the depths of it, so you better love it!
- Agents in Production: You've shipped agent systems that real users depend on, not just demos, and you've handled what breaks once they're live
- Evals & Tracing: You've built your own eval suites, not just a vendor dashboard, and instrumented systems so every model and tool call can be inspected, replayed and tied to cost and latency. You can explain how you knew your evals measured the right thing.
- Model Routing: You've routed work across multiple models or providers and made quality, cost and latency trade-offs with data
- AI-Native Engineering: You build with coding agents every day and know how to set up a codebase, tests and CI so agents can work in it safely
- Full-Stack Proficiency: Proven track record of designing, building, deploying and operating complex full-stack web applications in production, with the range to choose the right languages and tools for each job
- Data Engineering: Hands-on experience cleaning, reconciling and modeling messy real-world data, and building the ETL/ELT pipelines and warehouses that keep it reliable. You've owned data quality, not just consumed clean tables
- Product Acumen: Demonstrated ability to think critically about product strategy, understand user needs and pain points, and translate them into technical solutions
- Autonomy & Action Orientation: Proven ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and drive projects to completion with a strong sense of ownership and a bias toward action
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Leadership Potential: Desire and ability to eventually grow and lead a small, high-performing engineering team
Defining Our Ideal Candidate: Key Traits in Action
Beyond technical skills, we seek engineers who embody specific traits that are crucial to our culture and success. These qualities are interconnected and define how we approach building impactful products.
Product-Minded
We value engineers who look beyond the code to understand the bigger picture. A product-minded engineer at Equi is deeply curious about the "why": Why are we building this feature? Who is it for? What problem does it solve? They actively engage with stakeholders across the company, offering thoughtful suggestions, constructively challenging assumptions, and proposing alternative approaches based on their technical insight and understanding of user needs.
They excel at evaluating the trade-offs between engineering effort and product impact, often leveraging data to support their perspectives and ensuring that we build not just functional solutions, but truly valuable ones.
High Autonomy
Trust is fundamental to our engineering culture, and we empower our engineers with significant autonomy. High autonomy at Equi means having the freedom to determine the best way to tackle complex problems and execute tasks within the scope of agreed-upon goals. Engineers who thrive here are self-starters, comfortable navigating ambiguity, proactively seeking information, and taking ownership of their work end-to-end. This freedom comes paired with accountability; our engineers own their decisions and outcomes, learning and adapting from both successes and setbacks in a psychologically safe environment.