AI Agent Software Engineer
Company | Farther |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional Python development experience, preferably in a sell-side bank, hedge fund, or proprietary trading environment
- Strong background in traditional finance with hands-on experience implementing financial workflows and processes
- Proven experience building applications and systems in financial services environments
- Solid understanding of financial products, services, and the level of complexity required for financial coding
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex financial requirements into technical solutions
- Ambitious mindset with openness to AI and ability to see the transformative potential of intelligent automation
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and modern development practices
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- No AI experience required – we’ll teach you our framework and approach
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain autonomous AI agents using Python and AWS that serve clients and automate complex financial workflows
- Build and scale robust data pipelines leveraging Pandas, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL to power intelligent agent decision-making
- Deploy and manage high-performance workloads using AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, and related cloud services
- Collaborate closely with product and trading teams to integrate sophisticated financial data models and business logic into agent behavior
- Construct and maintain internal knowledge graphs that enable agents to understand complex financial relationships and processes
- Monitor agent performance, reliability, and latency in production environments and continuously iterate for improvement
- Build agents across key areas including data onboarding, project management, client experience and operations tasks, and client acquisition workflows
- Support trading operations in international securities through intelligent automation and workflow optimization
- Translate your traditional finance experience into AI-powered solutions that understand the complexity of financial services operations
- Drive technical decisions for agent architecture that scales with our growing client base and expanding service offerings
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LLM-based applications or AI/ML frameworks
- Knowledge of financial modeling and quantitative analysis
- Exposure to knowledge graph frameworks, ontologies, or graph databases
- Experience automating complex operational tasks using agents or advanced scripting
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming, concurrent systems, or distributed task queues
- Working knowledge of financial data, order lifecycles, or middle/back office operations
- Experience with financial regulatory requirements and compliance