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Software Engineer – Retail Investing Platforms
Mercor
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years
Job description
A short, paid expert interview engagement for experienced software engineers working at companies that serve retail investors, sharing how their teams evaluate and integrate third-party APIs and AI vendors. It is a one-time 45–60 minute remote conversation on behalf of an AI company building financial intelligence products.
At a glance
- Employment
- Contract · Independent contractor
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Join one 45–60 minute remote interview at a time that works for you.
- Walk through how your team evaluated or shortlisted an outside API or AI vendor (e.g. market data, news/research, identity, or AI chat), and what drove the final decision.
- Share what made integrations go well or badly: documentation, reliability, pricing, security and compliance review, and support.
- Give candid feedback on what you would want from vendors serving retail-investing products.
What we're looking for
- Currently employed in-house (not freelancing or consulting) as a software engineer, backend or integrations engineer, platform engineer, tech lead, or engineering manager who is still hands-on.
- Work at a company that reaches retail investors, such as an online brokerage, investing app, robo-advisor, neobank with investing, wealth platform, or brokerage infrastructure provider.
- Work on the retail product side, not institutional, hedge fund, or asset management desks.
- Evaluated or integrated a third-party API or AI vendor in the past 12 months (or will soon).
- Involved in choosing the vendor (helped evaluate or shortlist), not only building it after the decision was made.
Nice to have
- Integrated market data, news, research, or AI chat features.
- Experience across different company sizes or seniority levels.
Benefits
- Paid for your time, with a flexible, one-time commitment that fits alongside your current role.
- Share your perspective to help shape AI and data products built for retail investors.