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# Senior LLM Engineer at Finvest

- **Company:** Finvest
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-03-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/finvest/23286307-6e76-4896-8558-5727b63ce7db

## Job description

We are looking for a senior 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.
- Design and own the core backend infrastructure, including our multi-agent LLM architecture that powers financial reasoning, simulations, and user interactions.
- Work with massive financial datasets at unprecedented scale, inventing systems that let LLMs interpret, evolve, and act on billions of real-world data points.
- Push the boundaries of what AI can do in money management, from autonomous financial planning to market-aware agentic systems.
- Collaborate closely with frontend, design, and the founding team to craft world-class user experiences that feel magical.

## What you are good at

- Have 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer developing and deploying production-level backend systems
- Experience with LLM models and AI-driven systems - either from past projects or a strong willingness to work on LLM-powered applications
- Fluent in Node/Typescript, Python, Postgres, and AWS
- Proven ability to architect complex distributed system with experience in services like Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and eagerness to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- Comfortable taking ownership from start to finish, build new systems from scratch, and iterate quickly in a startup environment.

If you want to build systems that rethink how people interact with money and solve problems that have never been solved before, we would love to talk.

## 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](https://www.getfinvest.com/about).

## 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](https://www.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](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finvest) and 18 employees on Built In [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/finvest). 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.

## Why Work Here
- **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](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/finvest).
- **Work Policy**: In-office in San Francisco (SoMa area) for most roles. Some positions may offer remote options for candidates in India [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/finvest).
- **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.

## Sources
1. [getfinvest.com/about](https://www.getfinvest.com/about)
2. [getfinvest.com](https://www.getfinvest.com/)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/finvest](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finvest)
4. [builtin.com/company/finvest](https://builtin.com/company/finvest)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/finvest](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/finvest)

## Other roles at Finvest

- [Senior Backend Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-finvest-san-francisco-f47fe6m6rjwx) — San Francisco, CA
- [Marketing Intern](https://feeny.ai/job/marketing-intern-finvest-san-francisco-6s97snm40w38) — San Francisco, CA
- [Chief of Staff](https://feeny.ai/job/chief-of-staff-finvest-san-francisco-p4nqrzxsy5cd) — San Francisco, CA
- [Senior Backend Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-finvest-india-c44eaknqbd91) — India