Software Engineer – Retail Investing Platforms (Paid Expert Interview)

our verified AI client is seeking experienced **software engineers at companies that serve retail investors** for a short, paid expert interview on behalf of a leading AI company building financial intelligence products. In a single **45–60 minute conversation**, you will share how engineering teams like yours evaluate, choose, and integrate third-party APIs and AI vendors. This is a good fit for backend, integrations, or platform engineers (or hands-on tech leads and engineering managers) at online brokerages, investing apps, robo-advisors, neobanks with investing, wealth platforms, or brokerage infrastructure providers. * * * ### 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. Please share only your own experience and opinions. You will **not** be asked for confidential or proprietary information about your employer. * * * ### Requirements - 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. * * * ### Why Join? - 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.