Remote Backend Engineer (Mid/Sr./Lead) - Series A Funded FinTech Startup - remote

Altruist
Posted 3 years ago  • Los Angeles, CA

Job Title: Mid-Level, Senior or Lead Backend Engineer
Salary: $130K - $230k (dependent on seniority &work location) + Attractive Early Stage Equity
Location: Fully Remote anywhere in the US or onsite in Venice (CA) post Covid 

What you’ll do:

  • Work closely with the Engineering Manager, lead engineers, product and business teams
  • Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
  • Focus on building and scaling systems
  • Integrate data from multiple custodians, aggregating, modeling financial data, and loading the data into a transactional system
  • Work on complex calculations to produce performance reporting in a consistent and accurate manner

Preferred Requirements:

  • Experience building scalable RESTful back end services using Java and Spring Boot framework
  • Implemented microservices architecture for backend services for delivering highly distributed and resilient architecture
  • Implement and believe in automated testing like unit/integration test
  • Experience using Swagger for API documentation, SonarQube for code quality
  • Strong grasp over database technologies using SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, HBase/Cassandra, Redis
  • Strong understanding of caching technologies like CDN, Redis, Memcache.
  • Working knowledge of Docker/Container technologies like Kubernetes or ECS

Bonus points

  • Experience building cloud infrastructure on cloud technologies like AWS
  • Familiarity with ELK stack to ensure we have consistent logging, monitoring and alerting built for the services
  • Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
  • Experience working with huge data set and be able to consumer/aggregate and summarizing results will be a huge advantage
  • Strong domain knowledge of brokerage platforms and financial services