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.
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