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Akoya
Akoya

Principal Software Engineer

Location

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Salary Estimate

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Seniority

Principal

Tech stacks

Data
Software Development
Amazon
+26

Visa

U.S. visa required

Permanent role
22 days ago
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Meet the future

Akoya is an API-based network backed by major financial institutions that creates a safer and more transparent way for people to safely send their personal financial data to third-party financial apps. If you are inspired and fascinated by innovative technology that solves complex, real-world problems, then join us as we transform how financial data is accessed and shared. Akoya offers a highly collaborative, fast-paced, and fun working environment and our team is comprised of diverse, creative, and driven professionals with expertise in the banking, securities, fintech, and data aggregation industries. We are an equal opportunity employer. Come join us and be part of this exciting journey – check out www.akoya.com for more information!

The Role

We are looking for an experienced software engineer who has an extreme attention to detail, ability to concisely communicate complex concepts as well as supporting the success of our customers through beautiful product UX and API design. In this role, you will

  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code optimized for performance and scalability to handle high-volume traffic.
  • Scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Akoya’s broad strategic initiatives.
  • Monitor and debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements and deliver high-quality features.
  • Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes

Qualifications

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Akoya values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or has not followed a traditional path, do not let that stop you from considering Akoya. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Required Experience/skills

  • 10+ years of professional hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems. Demonstrated experience with Golang is required.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong software engineering skills and a passion building scalable and performant systems.
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
  • Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals (e.g. filesystems, system calls), and with networking and cloud systems.

Preferred Experience/skills

  • Experience with container and serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Development and/or Operations experience with a production AWS environment
  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Experience with message queues and event driven architectures (e.g., ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ).
  • Knowledge of observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, ElasticacheEC2, SQS, SNS, etc..)

Akoya is an equal-opportunity employer.

This remote position is only available to individuals living in the greater Boston, MA, New York City, NY and Raleigh, NC areas. Candidates who do not live within these areas will not be considered for this role.

About Akoya

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How does Akoya work?

Akoya is transforming the way consumers provide access to their data with increased security, privacy, and control over their information. Data aggregators, fintechs, and financial institutions need to only integrate once with the Akoya Data Access Network to securely exchange consumer-permissioned financial data.

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