What are the responsibilities and job description for the Artificial Intelligence Engineer position at TradeZero?
About the Company
“Built by Active Traders, For Active Traders”, TradeZero was founded in 2015 by a team that leveraged decades of collective operating and trading experience to build a next-generation trading platform tailored to the needs of the ever-growing community of sophisticated traders.
With broker dealers in the Bahamas, US and Canada, we offer retail traders low-to-no-cost stock trading and direct market access to U.S. equities and equity options via online trading platforms. TradeZero’s innovative features and capabilities for stock shorting accommodate all types of retail traders, especially the active trader.
Our customers choose us for our suite of advanced desktop, web-based and mobile trading platforms, professional-grade market access, sophisticated trading tools and our 24x7 live customer service.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain web applications .Work closely with the API team to enhance a suite of C# microservices. Translate design mockups into high-quality, responsive user interfaces. Ensure cross-browser compatibility and adherence to accessibility standards.
- Collaborate with designers and back-end developers to integrate APIs and deliver seamless user experiences.
- Optimize applications for speed, scalability, and maintainability.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.
- Design, develop, and integrate AI-powered features and workflows into web applications, including LLM-based user experiences, intelligent search, recommendations, and automation capabilities.
- Build and maintain integrations with AI services and APIs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Azure AI.
- Develop prompt engineering strategies, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails to ensure reliable AI application behavior.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical design sessions, including AI-related solution design.
- Collaborate with product, business, and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI-driven innovation and process improvement.
- Stay current with emerging front-end technologies, AI frameworks, and software engineering best practices.
Skills and Experience
- 3 years of hands-on experience as a software developer
- 5 years using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
- Experience with CSS for styling and layout, including preprocessors such as LESS or SCSS.
- Experience with API integration and data fetching.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and productivity enhancement.
- Understanding of AI application architectures, including LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, embeddings, and AI orchestration frameworks.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building AI-enabled applications or integrating generative AI capabilities into enterprise software.
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, or similar AI platforms.
- Experience with LangChain, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex, or related AI orchestration frameworks.
- Strong experience with back-end technologies such as C#, Java, and Node.js.Solid knowledge of SQL and writing efficient queries.
- Experience with API Gateways and Service Mesh architectures