Software Engineer – Retail Investing Platforms (Paid Expert Interview)

Mercor 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.

• Based in the United States.

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.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.