Serve as the first platform and data engineer, owning all technical infrastructure, data pipelines, release testing, and venue integrations outside of proprietary trading algorithms.
What you'd do
Operate and harden production Linux hosts on AWS: services, scheduling (cron), alerting, backups, and SSH workflows
Own the nightly data pipeline and warehouse, reconciling trades against exchange records
Lead incident diagnosis, post-mortems, and technical write-ups
Prepare and verify every production deployment with complete rollback plans
Maintain CI/CD pipelines, test suites (pytest), pre-commit hooks, and the replay harness
Build internal web tools, monitoring dashboards, and connect new prediction market venues
What they're looking for
Production Linux administration: systemd, cron, journald, resource diagnosis, multi-host SSH
Strong Python capabilities for backend services and data pipelines in existing codebases
Strong SQL expertise, particularly with SQLite
AWS fundamentals: EC2, object storage, and security groups
CI/CD and testing discipline: GitHub Actions, pytest, pre-commit
Working knowledge of statistics and a rigorous verification mindset
Nice to have
Experience with prediction markets, sports trading, or quantitative market making
Data warehousing experience with DuckDB
Flask or lightweight web framework experience for internal tooling
Prior production on-call experience
Gathered from the founder's post and the company's public pages.
Terms
Location
Remote (United States)From the company's pages, not the post
Remote
RemoteFrom the company's pages, not the post
Salary
$40–$50/hour (Contract, 40 hours/week, contract-to-perm potential)From the company's pages, not the post
Automated market maker providing 24/7 liquidity on US-regulated prediction markets.
Level Liquidity develops automated algorithmic market making systems that provide continuous liquidity on US-regulated prediction market venues. The architecture consists of AWS Linux trading instances streaming order-book quotes, continuous SQLite persistence, and automated reconciliation data pipelines.
Customers: Traders and participants on regulated prediction market exchanges (e.g., Kalshi, ForecastEx).
Stage
Bootstrapped / Pre-Seed
Team size
1
Based in
Remote (United States)
Founded
2026
People
James · FounderAlgorithmic trader and creator of Level Liquidity; develops the proprietary quantitative pricing and trading strategies for US prediction markets.x.com
Our research
What we found
Level Liquidity is an automated market maker that has been live trading on US-regulated prediction markets around the clock since early 2026.vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
This hire is the startup's very first engineering hire, working directly alongside the founder.vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
Strategy and algorithmic pricing remain strictly with the founder; the engineer will own all underlying infrastructure, pipelines, and deployment tooling.vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
The engagement starts as a 40-hour-per-week contract paying $40–$50/hour with potential conversion to full-time employment.vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
Our read
Stage
Bootstrapped / Pre-SeedBased on: Single-operator proprietary trading firm launched in 2026 with no reported outside venture rounds.
Team size
1 personBased on: Job posting states the company was built and run by one person and this is the first hire.
Engineer number
#1Based on: Explicitly advertised as 'first engineer' / 'first engineering hire'.
Salary equivalent
$83,200 – $104,000/yearBased on: Calculated from $40–$50/hour across 2,080 annual contract hours.
Equity / Profit share
1% – 4% or trading profit share upon FTE conversionBased on: Standard market range for a sole platform engineer at a bootstrapped quant trading boutique.
Runway signal
Self-sustaining trading P&LBased on: Active live trading generating trading spread revenues since early 2026.
Estimates from public information, not confirmed by the company.
Worth asking the founder
Which prediction market exchanges (e.g., Kalshi, ForecastEx) does the system currently trade on, and how much volume does it facilitate?
What specific performance milestones or timeline govern the transition from the $40–$50/hr contract to full-time permanent employment?
Will full-time conversion include equity, trading profit-sharing bonuses, or standard quant market-rate base salary?
Given that trading runs 24/7, what are the expected on-call rotations and nighttime emergency coverage duties for the sole engineer?