Senior Backend Engineer
Role summary
We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with over 6 years of experience to join our team. You will be responsible for architecting and developing complex, data-driven products with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability. The role involves working with a modern tech stack including Kotlin, Spring Boot, Scala, Play, REST APIs, and GraphQL, while also leveraging SQL and understanding database intricacies. Familiarity with financial concepts, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and data analytics tools is preferred. You will collaborate with product, design, and data engineering teams to bring transparency to financial markets through our SaaS offering and Cashflows API.
### Who you are
- A well-rounded engineer: You have a deep appreciation for engineering fundamentals holding over 6 years of experience. You understand the importance of writing tests, designing systems for long-term maintainability, and coming up with and evaluating different engineering approaches
- Experienced developing complex products and architecture. You have extensive experience architecting data-driven products with complex workflows. You are strong in SQL and able to incorporate a deep understanding of the database and backend to build systems that provide a great customer experience through scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Curious to expand your financial knowledge: You are excited to learn more about the intricacies of the financial system. You are adept at learning on the job and unafraid to dive into technical finance books
- Familiarity with financial concepts, specifically structured products
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Google BigQuery, and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with data analytics tools like Spark, R, or Pandas
- Familiarity with React, Redux, Node.js
### What the job involves
- Bring transparency to the financial markets: You will bring transparency to consumer lending, mortgages, and other asset classes, by enabling our customers at banks, hedge funds, and credit originators via our SaaS offering including our Cashflows API product to quickly extract insights from large private and public datasets
- Develop using a modern, open source stack: You will develop on top of a software stack that includes Kotlin + Spring Boot with some legacy apps built on Scala + Play, and interact with data by building both REST API and GraphQL endpoints. We continuously evaluate and adopt new open source technologies to solve customer needs, so the skills you develop here will serve you well beyond dv01
- Interact with a diverse team: You will collaborate closely with other teams at dv01 to create great products. This includes working closely with the product team to understand the customer story, design team to understand the motivation behind the UI/UX, the data engineering team to understand the most efficient way to query that data, and finally front-end engineers to fully build out the product
- Gain knowledge of the financial industry: You will have an exclusive view into the system that enables Americans to afford houses, cars, and college. You will learn about the participants, terminology, and mathematics behind this sector of the financial markets
### Benefits
- In-Person Team Building Events & Annual Company Offsite
- Peer Recognition program
- Virtual Coffees & Hangouts
- Remote Work with Office Space in New York
- Cultural Awareness and Impact Events
- Free All-Access Equinox Pass or Health and Wellness Stipend
- Virtual Team Workouts
- Nearly 100% Paid Health Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Free One Medical Membership
- Entrepreneur Panel Discussions
- Lunch & Learns
- Prototype Days
- Learning and Development Allowance
- 401(k) Plan via Guideline
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