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Founding Engineer at Elastics

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Founding Engineer (Warsaw, full-time, in-office)

Elastics is building an AI-native operating system for trading - deterministic agents, live data, portfolio management and execution across prediction markets, crypto, and beyond. We are Pre-Seed funded, working with our first clients, and need a Founding Engineer to accelerate building core product infrastructure.

About the Role

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

  • $5,000/month starting salary (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

To Apply

Send your resume to contact@elastics.ai with "HN who’s hiring" in the title

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