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Founding Engineer (Warsaw, full-time, in-office)
Source: hackernews
About the Role
Elastics is building an AI-native operating system for trading, featuring deterministic agents, live data, portfolio management, and execution across prediction markets, crypto, and beyond. We are pre-seed funded and working with our first clients. We are seeking a Founding Engineer to accelerate the development of our core product infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Build and own our agent orchestration & runtime engine (async, distributed systems)
- Deploy and scale services on Azure (Docker, CI/CD, monitoring)
- Connect to exchanges and data sources (API/websocket integration, streaming)
- Implement portfolio and risk calculations (PnL, positions, Greeks, risk metrics)
- Implement market discovery dashboards on our platform
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend experience (Python, distributed systems, financial data pipelines)
- Comfort with Docker, Redis/Kafka, PostgreSQL
- Strong C++ experience
- Interest in financial markets and trading
- Startup mindset: you can ship, own, and iterate fast
- Warsaw-based (in-office) or willing to relocate
- Fluency in English - our work and clients are international
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
Offer
- Starting Salary: $5,000/month (B2B) + meaningful equity (true founding role)
- Work at the forefront of financial and AI innovation
- Work directly with experienced math, quant, and product founders
- Exposure to top global hedge funds, exchanges, and VCs
Application
Send your resume to contact@elastics.ai with "HN who’s hiring" in the title.