Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
at Autonomous Technologies Group — Superintelligent financial advisor
What the role involves
About us
ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.
Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).
Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.
About the Role
You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs
Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows
Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization
Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer
Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)
Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity
Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship
Requirements
3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)
Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)
Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)
Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance
Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure
Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration
Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)
Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations
Why Join ATG
We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.
Work on AI with a massive market opportunity
Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors
High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy
About Autonomous Technologies Group
Autonomous is a superintelligent financial advisor at 0% advisory fees. Today, managing your money means one of two bad options: DIY your money: You end up with accounts everywhere (401k, IRAs, brokerage, crypto, savings, equity, secondaries). Your spreadsheet is always wrong. You make expensive mistakes because this isn't your full-time job. Hire a financial advisor: They'll manage your money and charge 1-2% of assets annually. Run that math over multiple decades and you're handing over half your net worth to fees. Neither path can economically deliver the sophisticated, personalized strategies the ultra-wealthy use to compound wealth: strategic tax-loss harvesting across individual securities, systematic risk management, portfolio-backed borrowing to defer capital gains, access to alternatives, etc. These aren't secret – they're just economically impossible to deliver at scale through traditional human advisors. Robos were supposed to fix this, but they were designed in a pre-AI world. In practice they just manage cookie-cutter portfolios. They don’t coordinate across your 401(k), taxable accounts, mortgage, equity, and cash flow, they don’t help with real decisions like job offers, windfalls, or concentrated stock, and they don’t deliver institutional strategies. That’s why, even after a decade plus, the biggest robos are still <$100B AUM while old-school advisors like Raymond James / Edward Jones sit on trillions. We’re doing for financial advising what Robinhood did for brokerages. Think of it as a full-stack, AI-native wealth strategist that brings billionaire-style playbooks to ordinary investors. Autonomous is built around a frontier-scale reasoning engine—an AI that perceives global events as they unfold, understanding their deeper implications for markets and and most importantly, how these events will impact your investments.
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