Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Stable Money presents a great opportunity to be a part of the founding team and participate in the 0 to 1 journey If you have at least 6 years of experience and you're someone who's all about distributed architectures, system design wizardry, and making Go or Java dance to your tune, read on!

What We’re Looking For:

Architecting Marvels: Designing and implementing scalable, resilient distributed systems that make our platform sing.

Coding Ninjutsu: Crafting elegant, efficient code in Go and/or Java that runs like clockwork.

Keeping Watch: Hands-on with monitoring and troubleshooting using open-source Observability stack—think Loki, Grafana, and all things metrics.

Cloud Whisperer: Leveraging core AWS services to build and maintain robust infrastructure that never sleeps.

Pipeline Maestro: Setting up and optimising CI/CD pipelines to keep our deployment game strong.

Mentoring Mastery: Guiding and mentoring junior engineers, sharing your wisdom and helping them grow into future stars.

Bonus Points:

Startup Savvy: Thrived in the fast-paced, dynamic environment of a startup.

Fintech Finesse: Familiarity with the unique challenges and regulations of the fintech industry.

If you're excited about joining a dynamic team where you can architect, code, mentor, and innovate, send us your resume! Let's chat about how you can help us revolutionize the fintech space. 🚀

We're looking for highly skilled experienced engineers to design and build high-scale, cloud-based data processing systems that can handle massive amounts of data with low latency. You'll work with a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and be given the autonomy and support to do your best work. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact in society while working in a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Significant experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, C#, C/C++, or Ruby.
• Experience with container platforms such as DC/OS, Kubernetes
• Fluency in technologies and design concepts around Big Data processing and relational databases, such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Map/Reduce, stream processing, etc.
• Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code into production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
• Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
• Preferably, production experience with Cloud and data processing technologies.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

• Design and build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
• Build cloud services on top of the modern OCI infrastructure.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, to quality assurance, and to production.
• Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure our software quality bar is high.
• Optimize data processing pipelines for orders of magnitude higher throughput and faster latencies.
• Leverage a plethora of internal tooling at OCI to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.

• You have 3+ years of experience using Golang/ Go Programming development language.
• You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
• You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
• Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes

Ventura Securities is establishing its fintech team - a remote-first, work from anywhere team with highly talented individuals who come from diverse backgrounds and looking to solve real client problems at scale. Ventura has been in the stockbroking business for 20+ years and it is a robust and profitable franchise with 1000+ employees currently. We are looking for passionate techies with skills primarily around AWS and Python who are aspiring for a fast-track career.

Your Key Responsibilities: 

1. Build out of the Ventura cloud-based backend platform from scratch

2. Ownership and monitoring of our D2C backend

3. Robust documentation skills and desire to share information with others

4. Desire and ability to prototype ideas quickly, and be willing to experiment and learn

Basic Requirements:

·  Very strong python, lambda, sql, general aws

· Clean coding skills around Python or Go and SQL

· Demonstratable experience around writing testable code, working with git, doing peer-level code review, daily standups, and generally championing software excellence

· What you get: 

1. Chance to build out a next-gen fintech product from ground 0

2. Opportunity to influence the design of the product

3. Flexible and work anywhere environment running out of Slack

Flat org structure

Overview: 

• Design and develop Rest APIs. 
• Create documentation around processes including front-end design and service architecture. 
• Follow industry trends regarding backend-end technologies and techniques. 
• Agile rituals like Feature elaboration/Estimation, daily stand-ups, release planning, Iteration Planning Meeting, Retrospective, Showcase, etc. 
• Build content and data driven enterprise level web application which works for Multiple clients in multiple countries. 

Relevant experience and Exposure: 

• 1+ years relevant work experience showing growth as a Backend developer. 
• Extensive technical experience and development expertise in C#, .Net core, Web services (REST) 
• Proficient with OOPS and Design principles. 
• Expertise in writing clean, secure and refactored code. 
• Knowledge and hands-on Experience with Test Driven Development. 
• Experience with relational and non-relational Database technologies like SQL, MongoDB. 
• Proficient with Git or any source code management tool. 
• Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential. 
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail. 

Nice to haves: 

• Experience with .Net core. 
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure etc.). 
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Docker, Spinnaker etc. 
• Exposer to an Agile Development Methodology would be beneficial. 
• Atlassian suit knowledge (Jira particular). 

• Design the architecture of new services to deliver timely communication from server to
• client and server to server, while still functioning alongside existing server components
• Describe and implement the communications across multiple network layers, considering
• performance, reliability, and flexibility with respect to the underlying infrastructure
• Enhance and expand the ORM layer of the studio’s in-house web framework
• Craft software solutions for supporting flexibility in resource allocation, from compute to storage
• Consult with technical operations on appropriate Kubernetes-based infrastructure design
• Design for performance, and measure the effects
• Review your colleagues’ code, and learn from their reviews as well
• Identify, document, and communicate best practices for the engineers who use the fruits of your labour
• Requirements:
• 7+ years professional work experience
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized
• Proficient in PHP, C++, or Go
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Experience with in-memory NoSQL databases, such as Redis
• Ability to debug issues within custom code quickly
• Passion for developing scalable and maintainable software systems

• Java
• Springboot
• REST API
• Microservices

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