Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
REMOTE /
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Permanent
This job allows you to work remotely
Job Description
Our client is a no-code platform for automated investment management. The platform allows investors to build, test, deploy, and manage automated investing strategies - all without writing a line of code.
As an early Senior Backend Engineer you will:
- Be responsible for designing and building critical pieces of our infrastructure- Work closely with the executive team to guide our decisions regarding technical architecture
- Maintain and improve our trading and backtesting servers
Projects you will work on:
- Creating a language that clients can use to define any conceivable trading strategy ("strategies as data")- Determining the best way to collaborate on, share, and/or monetize strategies
- Working on a state of the art and novel approach to trading
- Develop new features that depend on backend, including new symphony editor functionality, custom logic for symphony personalization etc.
Must Have Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a backend developer
- Has leadership ability and is interested in mentoring and developing other engineers
- Experience with or interested in Clojure / functional programming
- Proven experience with database design
- Has familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP is the used platform)
- University degree in Computer Science or similar