Senior Backend Engineer

dv01 is lifting the curtain on the largest financial market in the world: structured finance. The role involves bringing transparency to financial markets and developing on a modern software stack, 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 + ZIO and Python + FastAPI . 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

Requirements:

• Over 6 years of experience in software engineering
• Deep appreciation for engineering fundamentals
• Experience developing complex products and architecture
• Extensive experience architecting data-driven products with complex workflows
• Strong in SQL and able to incorporate a deep understanding of the database and backend
• Ability to build systems that provide a great customer experience through scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Curious to expand financial knowledge and excited to learn about the intricacies of the financial system
• 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