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About Our Client

Our client is a rapidly growing, VC-backed fintech startup looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Node.js) to join a small team to help scale their product from thousands of users to millions of users. Their mission is to empower investors with easy-to-use analytics and beautiful charts to research stocks and understand market trends. The platform's vast, real-time data coverage includes data on stocks, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), fixed income securities, Foreign Exchange (FX) currencies, commodities, economics, financial news, and Twitter. Superior functionality combined with a delightful user experience explains why the number of users has tripled over the past year. Daily users spend more than two hours per day on the browser-based platform. The client is backed by Social Leverage and Craft Ventures, two of the savviest, value-adding seed-stage VC firms.

Position Overview

As a Sr. Backend Engineer, You will join the Application team and help our effort to deliver a comprehensive investment experience to our customers. Tech Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, RxJS, AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, PostgreSQL. Check out this recent feature built by the App team.

Requirements:

5+ years experience in software engineering
Experience with back-end technologies: Node.js (3+ years required), NestJS (or any other framework), SQL, and NoSQL databases.
Experience with infrastructure: Cloud computing (AWS, GCP or Azure), CI/CD, Kubernetes.
Understanding design patterns, algorithms, and system design
Great communication skills; curious, collaborative, humble, and an excellent problem solver.
Upper-Intermediate level of English
Previous experience in FinTech startup is a plus.
Experience with front-end technologies: React (or any other framework), HTML, CSS.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for the end-to-end development and implementation of features.
Being a small team requires you to be responsible for features, from gathering requirements to realizing and maintaining, and offering improvements
Designing and implementing scalable web services, applications, and APIs.
Transform large and complex datasets into beautiful visualizations Identifying bottlenecks and improving software efficiency.
Work closely with the product management and design team to define feature requirements and deliver the product that materially impacts the business and improves the customer experience.

If you are challenged by this position and would like to learn more about it, don't hesitate to send us your resume in English.

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