Job Summary
Our partner is a Fintech startup founded a few years ago by two young Fintech enthusiasts.
They are a B2B SaaS offering an innovative no-code platform that allows professional finance users to perform real-time analysis on huge amounts of data, create rules-based (systematic) investment strategies, and run complex financial simulations. Their clients typically manage from millions up to billions of dollars in their portfolios.
Our partner’s focus is on leading asset classes (equities/stocks, futures, fx, etc.) as well as adopting digital assets (crypto).
Their platform is delivered through a fast web app and backed by a financial/math backend running on a proprietary, cloud-native, distributed calculation engine.
They are a fully remote company, with team members from across Europe who have just completed their first external funding round and they are looking to accelerate growth this year, expanding their team and infrastructure.
Benefits
33 days total paid holiday per year (inclusive of any local national holidays)
Stock options package worth 1 month's salary, granted at the end of the probation period (3 months after joining)
Annual performance bonus paid as a mix of options and cash
Private health insurance for the team and their spouses and children
Work alongside and learn from top performers from the world's leading financial firms (Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Brevan Howard, etc.)
Flexibility around working hours/days and a focus on making sure you are as productive as possible
Small, friendly team; flat structure - you will report to the CTO/Founder; there is significant career growth opportunity as the company itself grows
What they look for:
Good command of written and verbal English, in a technical context
Comfortable working in an asynchronous, remote-first environment
Interest in working on challenging engineering problems is more commonly found in top tech or finance companies
Interest in working in a startup environment (fast-paced, more ownership and responsibility, results-focused, less structured/bureaucratic)
Interest in writing high-quality code and comprehensive testing
There is NO requirement for any finance knowledge; we will teach you what you need to know along the way
Big plus, but not a must
Past experience in a high-growth tech startup is a big plus
CS degree would be a plus, but not a must-have if there is relevant work experience to compensate
Tech Requirements
Minimum 5 years of professional engineering experience; minimum 3 years in backend development (Python)
Experience with: any API/ web framework (Flask, Django etc.), SQL (any), Docker
A plus but not a must: experience with an ORM (SQLAlchemy), Pandas, NumPy, AWS, Celery
Needs to have successfully tackled trickier backend engineering problems (not just simple backend API); some examples, non-exhaustive: any big data workflows, async tasks scheduled and distributed over multiple servers, real-time services where speed/latency matters, memory-intensive workloads requiring significant optimizations, complex APIs with coordination across many clients, any time series related backend work (IoT, Finance, etc)
Any frontend experience is a plus
Tech stack
Backend: Python (Flask, Pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy), PostgreSQL, Pytest, GitLab, AWS.
