VP, Technology (Backend)

Responsibilities: Work as part of agile software development team, responsible for creating new platforms for structured investments and annuities, designing, building, and delivering best-in-class automation solutions to improve platform usability and enhance user experience. Design and build workflow automation solutions for product issuance, distribution, order management, and life cycle event processing of structured notes and other risk-managed products using a variety of open-source and proprietary technologies. Design and implement systems that power the company’s large-scale platform for managed-risk financial products, including writing codes and enhancing efficient system build. Build APIs and applications that are highly performant and intuitive utilizing knowledge of open-source technologies, modern web standards, best practices and distributed systems. Work directly with clients and collaborate across teams to serve as the technical developer for new client projects. Develop enhanced APIs that adhere to client needs using open-source technologies (Scala, Akka, Postgres and Kinesis). Coordinate closely with internal Sales and Product teams to drive new initiatives based on understanding of application and business needs.

Salary range: $150,000 - $200,000/year

This is an in-office and not a remote position

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and three years of experience in the job offered or three years software development experience. Experience must include two years each of the following: backend development in the financial technology (FinTech) domain; Scala, Java, or Python. Experience must include one year each of the following: leading the development of and maintaining single and multi-tenant applications based on Python or Java technologies; working with relational and non-relational database management systems; building applications in the cloud using cloud technologies; working with external partners on solutions to leverage existing toolchains; and supporting external partners on production issues post integrations. Experience may be gained concurrently.