Senior Software Engineer

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About the Role
Options AI is a technology-first brokerage firm seeking a dynamic and experienced engineer to play an integral role contributing to its rapid growth. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of building reliable, back-end trading or finance systems to support internal and external stakeholders. 
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build out the technology that powers our retail brokerage business. Our technology stack is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges. You'll help by modifying existing systems, taking on ownership of current systems and troubleshooting issues as they arise. Our team work with a wide range of tools including Java, Javascript, and Python. You'll work with the founders, UX designers and front-end developers in an effort to expand and improve our product suite.
Responsibilities
Design low latency, secure, large-scale systems for our customers and application teams
Owning features through inception, design, implementation, and launch
Work with our web application teams to design and maintain APIs
Work in multiple languages across different parts of the Options AI stack and / or front-end trading client applications
Coordinate with off-shore development team members and oversee their output.
Translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code
Contribute to scaling existing technology by profiling current architecture and refactoring existing code and / or leveraging new technology within existing systems
Write comprehensive tests for your code
Perform infrastructure work as necessary with support from the infrastructure team to support application development projects
Take ownership over back end systems
Provide technical leadership for more junior members of the team, by both managing small project teams and providing general technical mentorship
Required skills
Comprehensive knowledge in Java, Python or Node.JS
Knowledge of design patterns and software architecture
7+ years of industry experience
Capable of communicating effectively. We're a small remote team; you will be involved in every aspect and there is a lot of scope to learn new skills.
Ownership mentality - you want to get it done and be responsible for outcomes.
Nice to Have
Experience in FinTech/Cryptocurrencies products or companies
Experience in processing large streams of data
Experience in distributed systems
Our Technologies
Java/Dropwizard as the main language and framework
PostgreSQL as our primary data store
Redis and Memcached as our caching layer
RabbitMQ as our task queue
If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you! Reach out with your resume to [email protected]​
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