Senior Software Engineer
Company: Motif Investing
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: May 13, 2022
Job Description:
Motif is building innovative investment products and making them
universally accessible. We're a technology-driven investing
company, who's award-winning platform allows investors to trade
intelligently weighted baskets of stocks built around a theme or
investing style. Only at Motif can investors buy fractional shares
(i.e., $100 of AMZN stock) in real-time, participate in hundreds of
IPOs, and very soon add cryptoassets to their portfolio. We're a
fun, hard-working team passionate about shipping high-quality
products. Headquartered in sunny San Mateo, California, we're
backed by top-tier investors such as Goldman Sachs, J.P.Morgan,
Foundation Capital and have been recognized as a pioneer in the
investing space by Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch, CNBC,
Finnovate, NerdWallet, and others. Job Overview
- love working in an environment where you constantly experiment
and iterate quickly
- care about quality and you know what it means to ship high
quality code. -
- smile -when you see an article about the merits of -serverless
-compute -because you already built an app with it last -year
- like to Play with non-blocking asynchronous web service
frameworks
- wonder as to the right application of -merkle -trees -
- believe data is the most powerful tool for informed
decision-making - Identify with the above? - Some principles
guiding our engineers: "Always be shipping", "Value delivery",
"Strive for perfect", and "Don't be afraid to fail". Ultimately, we
are excited about our impact on the world and are looking for
engineers who are curious, generous and can hustle in a fast-paced
environment. You get a lot of creative freedom to solve your tasks
and you are responsible for the whole lifecycle of every feature
from initial requirements to release, ops and follow-up.
Responsibilities: -
- Work with the team to design and build the next generation
trading platform capable of trading across asset types like
securities and crypto.
- Keep abreast of emerging behaviors, technologies, and companies
across the electronic trading and smart portfolio management
landscapes -
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers
to identify and solve challenging problems. -
- Write & test code that truly works-code that is elegant &
scales well -
- Focus on fast, iterative & agile development and also shepherd
agile practices and processes
- Ensure performance, scalability, availability & security in
everything you do -
- Contribute to platform-level technology, strategy & decisions
-
- Engage in the business goals as well as the technology
-Qualifications:
- BS, or equivalent work experience, in Computer Science, Math,
or related technical field (experience writing good software is a
suitable replacement for a technical degree) -
- Five years (or more) of experience in building highly scalable,
reliable and robust software solutions/systems.
- Deep proficiency in a programming language such as Java and/or
Scala (we primarily use Java) -
- Comfortable working in a small, dynamic, and fast-paced team
-
- Strong capabilities of observation, analysis, synthesis
- Experience with Data Analytics, Front-End Design, Distributed
System Design would each/all be pluses -
- Excellent written and oral communication skills -
- Preference for generalists over specialists - ability to wear
many hats -
- Past co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building
great products - Technologies we use: -
- Infrastructure: AWS (and -non-cloud -hosted compute) -
- Microservices: Spring, Play, Docker, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS,
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