About TradeVerge AI
Who you'd be joining.
TradeVerge AI builds verified, rules-based automation for the gold market. Our flagship product, Gold Core, is a MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor with a public, third-party-verified track record on Myfxbook and thousands of members inside our live desk. We are a small, remote-first team that prefers evidence to opinion: every claim we publish is auditable, every release is versioned, and every support answer is written by someone who understands the code.
We hire slowly and deliberately for a remote, senior team, and we would rather leave a role open than lower the bar. People here owns hiring quality, onboarding that actually works remotely, and the practices that keep an async company humane.
Why this role matters
The people we need — quant researchers who can also ship code — are rare and heavily recruited. Finding them is a craft, not a job-board exercise.
What you'll actually do
The day-to-day, not the job-spec version.
- Own sourcing pipelines for research and engineering roles
- Screen for technical depth well enough to save the team's time
- Manage candidate communication with speed and honesty
- Report pipeline health weekly
The team and how you'll work
You'll work inside the people function, reporting to the lead for people, and partner day to day with Every team, Operations, Finance.
We are async-first across European and American time zones. Expect a short daily written check-in, one team sync a week, and long stretches of uninterrupted focus in between.
Decisions are written before they are made. If a change reaches members, there is a document explaining why, what we expect, and how we'll know if we were wrong.
Tools you'll live in: Ashby / Greenhouse-style ATS · Notion · Slack · Deel or equivalent EOR.
Your first 90 days
What a good start looks like — we'll agree this with you in week one.
- Complete onboarding with the people function: environments, access, and a walkthrough of how Gold Core actually behaves on a live account.
- Read the last two release memos end to end so you understand the standard of evidence we hold ourselves to.
- Ship one small, real improvement in your area — scoped with your manager in week one.
- Meet everyone you'll work with regularly across Every team, Operations, Finance.
- Take full ownership of a defined area and become the person the rest of the team asks about it.
- Deliver your first substantial piece of work end to end, including the written rationale behind it.
- Identify the two weakest things in your area and put a fix for one of them on the roadmap.
- Run your area independently, with your manager reviewing outcomes rather than steps.
- Improve one process or piece of tooling so the next person does the job faster than you did.
- Agree the next two quarters of objectives with clear, measurable success criteria.
How success is measured
No vague reviews — these are the things we'll actually talk about.
- Time-to-productive for new hires, not just time-to-hire
- Candidate experience scores stay high even for rejections
- Offer acceptance and first-year retention hold
Who we're looking for
The full qualification list for this role. Very few people tick every line — apply if the essentials fit.
The core of the role — we read these closely.
- 3+ years of professional experience in people or a directly adjacent discipline
- Demonstrable ownership of work at the scope described above — ideally on a product used by paying customers
- Proven technical recruiting for engineering or quant roles
- Active sourcing skills beyond inbound applications
- Comfort representing a small, unfamiliar brand
- Full-cycle recruiting or people operations experience with structured, evidence-based processes
- Writing that attracts the right candidates and screens out the wrong ones honestly
- Interview design, scorecards and bias-reduction practices you can explain and defend
- Comfort with HR systems, onboarding automation and clean record-keeping
- Supporting a distributed team across multiple jurisdictions and employment models
- Familiarity with employment basics in the US and UK, and employer-of-record arrangements
We hire on evidence; credentials are a signal, not a gate.
- CIPD, SHRM or equivalent welcomed; demonstrated practice matters more
- Writes clearly and thinks in public — decisions are documented before they are made
- Comfortable being wrong quickly: you look for the evidence that would disprove your own view
- Self-directed across time zones, with reliable follow-through and no need for chasing
- Holds a high bar on member-facing quality, including when nobody would notice the shortcut
- Treats compliance, honesty in marketing claims and risk disclosure as part of the craft, not overhead
- Legally able to work in United States (Remote US) without sponsorship at this time
- Available for contract work and a reliable home or co-working setup
- Fluent professional English, written and spoken
- Willing to complete a paid, time-boxed craft exercise as part of the process
Nice to have
Genuinely optional — strong candidates rarely tick every box.
- Fintech recruiting
- International hiring
- Employer-branding experience
Compensation and benefits
$60 – $90 per hour — the band is set by level, published up front and paid the same regardless of how hard you negotiate. Reviewed annually, plus an out-of-cycle review if your scope changes.
- Fully remote, async-first — we optimise for deep work, not meeting attendance
- Competitive base plus performance bonus tied to shipped outcomes
- Private medical cover (US/UK) and a health stipend elsewhere
- £/$2,000 annual learning budget for research, data and conferences
- Top-spec hardware, multi-monitor setup and VPS/data subscriptions covered
- 28 days paid leave plus local public holidays
How hiring works
Five stages, roughly ten days end to end.
- 01Intro call (30 min) — your background, what you want to build next
- 02Craft interview (60 min) — a real problem from our backlog, no whiteboard trivia
- 03Paid take-home or working session (4–6 hrs, compensated)
- 04Team conversation with two people you'd work with daily
- 05Offer, usually within 10 days of the first call
We are looking for high-signal hiring and writing that makes people want to work here. Everything in our process is designed to surface that rather than test recall.
The craft interview uses a real, recent problem from our backlog. You may use any resource you would use on the job, including documentation and AI tools — we care how you think, not what you memorised.
Take-home work is paid at a fair hourly rate and capped so it never eats a weekend.
You will get a decision, with reasons, after every stage. We do not ghost.