Software Engineer - Core Financial Platform

Basic Capital

• $100K — $150K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience with backend frameworks and API design
  • Strong skills in architecture design and problem-solving
  • Familiarity with programming languages like Kotlin, Rust, Java, Go, C/C++, Python, Ruby, or TypeScript
  • Experience using MySQL or PostgreSQL database systems
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructures such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Responsibilities

  • Join a high-performing engineering team to develop trading and money movement systems
  • Build and manage essential trading, financing, and fund management platforms
  • Design systems to manage complex fund flows
  • Engage in architecture discussions, planning sessions, and code reviews across the tech stack

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic fintech startup environment
  • Collaborative culture with a mission to reduce wealth inequality
  • Involvement in cutting-edge technology and innovative product development
  • Chance to work with a highly experienced founding team from top tech and finance companies
  • Focus on personal and professional growth in a fast-paced setting
Full Job Description
You will
  • Join an elite team of engineers responsible for building systems that facilitate trading and money movement
  • Build and maintain core trading, financing, and fund management systems
  • Design and architect systems that orchestrate and reconciles complex flows of funds
  • Participate in architecture discussions, planning, and code reviews across the stack


Required Competencies
  • Strong experience with modern backend frameworks, API design, and event-driven systems
  • Strong architecture design and problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency in any of the following: Kotlin, Rust, Java, Go, C/C++, Python, Ruby, or TypeScript
  • Experience working with MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Experience with modern build systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)


Preferred Competencies
  • Experience building trading systems, lending systems, and asset management systems
  • Experience in fintech or early-stage technology companies
  • Experience working in Kotlin backends
  • Experience with Temporal for asynchronous workflow orchestration


Cultural Fit
  • Passionate about solving big social problems with pragmatic solutions
  • Aptitude for complexity and curiosity for financial markets
  • Enjoys learning new technologies and selecting the right tool for each job
  • Adaptable and open to contributing across the tech stack as the team evolves
  • Autonomous, high agency, accountable, and thrives in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, working effectively in cross-functional teams
  • Excited to be a part of an in-office team
* Ladders Estimates

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