Software Engineer II

Job Type
Full-time
Description
At YCharts, we believe that building and executing a great investment strategy should be simple and accessible. As a leader in the rapidly evolving wealth management industry, we provide tech solutions that empower advisors and planners to scale their businesses effectively. Our cloud-based software equips investment advisors, wealth managers, asset managers, and retail investors with powerful research tools, comprehensive data, compelling visuals, and customizable sales collateral. With our best-in-class software and unparalleled support, YCharts has grown from a fintech startup to a thriving company in the burgeoning "wealth-tech" space, proudly serving industry leaders such as WealthManagement.com, Seeking Alpha, TD Ameritrade, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, The Wall Street Journal, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.
Job Summary: Work with technologies that ensure our data pipeline efficiently maintains and calculates data for the 200,000+ securities in our universe. Work on features that ensure financial data is consistent, reliable, timely and accurate by importing data from third party data providers, performing custom calculations on this imported data, and efficiently storing this data.
Job Responsibilities:

• Write code (and unit tests!) in Python and the Django framework to implement complex backend features.
• Use tools like Airflow to build / enhance financial data pipelines for over 200,000 securities.
• Make use of pandas and asynchronous task tools like celery to efficiently calculate 4,000+ unique data points for each security.
• Design robust data models that account for the structure and type of data to store.
• Design, plan, estimate, and ticket features that are scoped by our product team.
• Perform code reviews for other engineers on the team.
• Document the work you have done both in repo as well as outside of the repo for future engineers.
• Collaborate with other engineers both verbally and in writing to plan, design, and build a world-class financial research platform.

Requirements
Job Requirements:

• 2+ years of relevant industry or academic experience
• Experience developing in Python (knowledge of the Django framework a plus)
• Experience designing, building and maintaining application features on the backend
• Experience participating in multi-month projects from conception to maintenance with multiple team members
• Desire to take ownership and responsibility when a problem or opportunity arises
• Experience working with non-technical teams (product, business, etc) where explaining technical concepts is needed
• Self-organized and able to work independently

Awards and Accolades:

• 7x Inc. 5000 "Fastest Growing Companies"
• American Banker's "Best Fintechs to Work For"
• Built in Chicago's "Best Places to Work" and "Best Small Company to Work For"
• Inc.'s "Best Places to Work"
• Inc.'s "Top Regionals: Midwest"
• Crain's "Best Places to Work in Chicago"
• InvestmentNews' "Biggest Fintech Innovations"
• Technology Tools for Today & Inside Information's "Top Tool Advisors Are Thinking About Adding"
• Kitces Report's "Investment Data" market leader, #1 most-adopted in the last year, #2 in market share
• Business Intelligent Group's "Best Places to Work"
• Hired's "Top Employers Winning Tech Talent"

Job Perks:

• Weekly lunch credits
• Premium beverages
• Team activities
• Regular company events
• Hybrid Schedule
• Employee Resource Groups
• Summer hours- we head out early during the warm months!

YCharts is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Salary Description
$140,000 - $160,000