Senior Backend Engineer at Finvest (India)

Finvest· India·2d ago

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Employment

Full-Time

Job description

We are looking for a backend engineer to join our team in India. As one of the founding members of our team, you will play a critical role in shaping our product and engineering culture.

What you will do

Build Finn, the first AI-powered wealth manager.
Develop and maintain the core backend infrastructure of the Finvest platform for wealth management, trading, and processing global financial data.
Build integrations with external data providers and financial services.
Work closely with frontend and the rest of the founding team to build exceptional AI-first user experiences.

What you are good at

Experience with Node/Typescript, Python, Postgres, and AWS
Proven experience as a backend engineer. Experience in financial services, trading platforms, or data-driven applications is a plus.
Experience with performance and optimization problems and eagerness to both diagnose and prevent these problems
Comfortable with building new systems from scratch, scaling from 0 to 1, and iterating quickly in a startup environment.

Why work at Finvest

Culture: Described as a high-hunger, high-ownership environment where "A+ people attract A+ people" and teams "ship high-quality products fast." Values include letting the best ideas win, working very hard, and striving for excellence ashbyhq.com.
Work Policy: In-office in San Francisco (SoMa area) for most roles. Some positions may offer remote options for candidates in India builtin.com.
Team size: Very small (5-18 people), offering outsized impact and direct contribution to product direction.
Engineering focus: Hiring Senior Backend Engineers and Senior LLM Engineers – strong emphasis on AI and software craftsmanship.
Perks: Not explicitly listed, but typical for YC startups include equity, health benefits, and the chance to shape early-stage product and culture.

About Finvest

Company Overview

One-liner: Finvest is an AI-powered wealth management platform that democratizes access to fixed income and institutional-grade investment tools for retail investors.
Entity Type: Private (YC-backed startup)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA
Founded: 2023
Founders: Shivam Bharuka (other founders not publicly disclosed)

Core Business

Primary industry: Fintech / Wealth Management / AI.
Target customers: B2C retail investors – from beginners to experienced individuals seeking a stress-free way to grow wealth.
Mission statement: "Put the power to grow wealth in everyone’s hands" getfinvest.com.

Products & Services

[Finvest App / Platform]: A mobile and web application that allows users to buy and sell US Treasury Bills in minutes, track their complete financial life, and receive AI-powered insights. Integrates spending, saving, and investing into one unified dashboard.
[Finn AI – The AI Wealth Manager]: An AI agent that monitors a user’s finances, automates money moves (e.g., rebalancing, tax optimization), provides personalized answers, and surfaces opportunities or risks. Described as "the world’s first AI wealth manager" getfinvest.com.
Personalized News Feed: Curated financial news and analysis contextualized to the user’s portfolio to help make timely decisions.

Note: All offerings are currently Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with a mobile app available on iOS and Android.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly disclosed.
Key Metric: Small early-stage team – reported as 5 employees on Y Combinator’s page ycombinator.com and 18 employees on Built In builtin.com. Total funding amount not publicly available.
Notable Investors/Partners: Y Combinator (Winter 2023 batch). The website also states "backed by the world’s best investors and investment experts" but specific names are not listed.
Growth Signals: Launched publicly in early 2024 (covered by TechCrunch for Treasury Bills feature); actively hiring across engineering, marketing, and chief of staff roles; expanding from fixed income into additional asset classes.

Competitive Advantages

First-mover in AI wealth management: Combines automated portfolio management with conversational AI, offering both control and guidance – unlike pure robo-advisors (which remove user control) or trading apps (which lack guidance).
Focus on fixed income: Capitalizes on the high-interest-rate environment by making Treasury Bills easy to buy/sell, a segment traditionally underserved by consumer fintech apps.
Unified financial picture: Tracks spending, savings, and investments in one place with AI-driven recommendations, mimicking services previously only available to ultra-high-net-worth clients.

Strategic Focus

Expanding asset classes: Beyond Treasury Bills, the roadmap includes adding other asset classes (e.g., equities, bonds) to build a full wealth management platform.
Deepening AI capabilities: Further developing Finn’s ability to automate complex financial decisions (tax optimization, life event planning) and provide personalized insights.
Scaling the user base: Growing from waitlist to mass adoption, with emphasis on simplicity and accessibility for retail investors.

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