Software Engineer (AI / Data Platform) – Contract/Remote

RedChip Companies is building an AI-powered financial research platform that focuses on real-time insights from SEC filings and market data. They are looking for a strong engineer to own systems end-to-end, from data ingestion to APIs to production deployment, and help scale their live platform.

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale an AI-powered stock research assistant that processes SEC filings and financial data in real time
• Design and maintain data pipelines for ingesting and transforming large-scale financial datasets (EDGAR, market data, etc.)
• Develop backend systems and APIs powering search, analytics, and AI workflows
• Implement and optimize semantic search systems using embeddings and vector databases
• Build internal tools and dashboards for analytics, content performance, and investor insights
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability across production systems
• Take ownership of features from design to implementation, deployment, monitoring

Requirements:

• Strong backend experience with Python (FastAPI or similar)
• Solid knowledge of SQL (Postgres/MySQL) and data modeling
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade APIs
• Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, or similar services)
• Experience with data pipelines / ETL systems
• Good understanding of system design and scalable architectures
• Familiarity with vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.)
• Experience with LLM-based systems or AI applications
• Knowledge of Docker, CI/CD, or cloud deployments
• Exposure to financial data / SEC filings (EDGAR), metals and mining data
• Experience building analytics dashboards or internal tools