About Vantedge AI
Vantedge AI is a YC-backed fintech re-imagining how private-credit, private-equity, and hedge-fund teams turn mountains of deal data into decisions. Our multi-agent workspace ingests everything from bond prospectuses and trustee reports to full data rooms, then delivers structured models, crisp memos, and live dashboards in secondsend-to-end secure and audit-ready.
Founders
Ravi 20-year Wall Street credit-investing veteran; former CIO of Eight Capital (acquired by JC Flowers) and Wharton MBA.
Vijay exGoldman Sachs quant engineer; IIT Delhi & IIM Bangalore alumnus, CFA charter holder.
Who You'll Work With
A fast-moving team split across San Francisco, New York, and Mumbaialumni of IITs, BITS Pilani, University of Mumbai, and high-growth fintechs. We ship weekly, measure everything, and give every developer true end-to-end ownership.
Why Join Us
- Immediate impact: your APIs and infra ship to leading credit funds within days.
- Deep domain + cutting-edge AI: build distributed systems powering multi-agent workflows.
- Direct founder access: work closely with Ravi and Vijay to shape architecture and culture.
Help us define how AI transforms Wall Street's backendone system at a time.
What You'll Do
- Build and scale backend APIs in Node.js / TypeScript (and Python where needed) across REST and GraphQL.
- Own distributed architecture across Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, and event-driven pipelines.
- Integrate deeply with the AI stackAWS Bedrock, OpenAI GPT-4o, Google Gemini, Pinecone, Elasticsearchto support retrieval and agent workflows.
- Design secure, multi-tenant systems with IAM, Cognito, KMS, audit logs, and SOC-2aligned practices.
- Optimize performance: caching (Redis), concurrency, P90 latency, cold starts, and throughput.
- Add observability with CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, tracing, metrics, and alerts.
- Write clean, type-safe, tested code (Jest), automate CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and manage infra via Terraform/CDK.
- Collaborate with frontend and ML teams to ship fast, reliable end-to-end features.
You'll Thrive Here If You Have
- 25 years building production backends in Node.js / TypeScript (Python a plus).
- Hands-on depth with AWS: Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS/SNS.
- Strong fundamentals in API design, distributed systems, caching, and performance tuning.
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, and event-based architectures.
- Comfort working with AI/ML APIs, vector DBs, or LLM-driven systems (bonus, not mandatory).
- Clear, concise communication and an ownership mindset.
- Bonus points for Terraform/CDK, GraphQL, OpenTelemetry, multi-tenant architectures, or fintech exposure.
Why Join Us
- Competitive salary plus meaningful early-employee equity.
- Hardware & learning stipend; flexible PTO.
Direct line to founders and customersyour work ships fast and matters.
