[Remote] Sr. Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. dv01 is lifting the curtain on the largest financial market in the world: structured finance. The role involves developing modern analytical tools and APIs to bring transparency to consumer lending and other asset classes, while collaborating with diverse teams to create impactful products.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- Over 6 years of experience in engineering
- Deep appreciation for engineering fundamentals
- Experience developing complex products and architecture
- Extensive experience architecting data-driven products with complex workflows
- Strong in SQL
- Ability 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 financial knowledge
- Adept at learning on the job
- 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
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO. Unplug and rejuvenate, however you want—whether that’s vacationing on the beach or at home on a mental-health day.
- $1,000 Learning & Development Fund. No matter where you are in your career, always invest in your future. We encourage you to attend conferences, take classes, and lead workshops. We also host hackathons, brunch & learns, and other employee-led learning opportunities.
- Remote-First Environment. People thrive in a flexible and supportive environment that best invigorates them. You can work from your home, cafe, or hotel. You decide.
- Health Care and Financial Planning. We offer a comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance package for you and your family. We also offer a 401(k) for you to contribute.
- Stay active your way! Get $138/month to put toward your favorite gym or fitness membership — wherever you like to work out. Prefer to exercise at home? You can also use up to$1,650 per year through our Fitness Fund to purchase workout equipment, gear, or other wellness essentials.
- New Family Bonding. Primary caregivers can take 16 weeks off 100% paid leave, while secondary caregivers can take 4 weeks. Returning to work after bringing home a new child isn’t easy, which is why we’re flexible and empathetic to the needs of new parents.
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