BlueGamma, a financial analytics platform catering to renewable energy investors and developers, is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with an interest in financial markets, renewable energy, and SaaS.
Opportunity
As the second technical hire on our team, you will collaborate closely with our co-founders to refine and enhance our product amidst a bustling and dynamic environment. ⚡
♂️ We are looking for a proactive individual who can quickly contribute to addressing our customers' feature requests and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform.
This position presents a unique opportunity to work with financial data and gain invaluable experience as a key member of a small, five-person team in a startup constantly evolving and tackling new challenges.
Collaborate with our co-founders to develop and refine our platform's features
Write clean and maintainable code with an emphasis on non-breaking changes ️
Manage and optimize databases and servers to ensure high performance and availability
As a second technical hire, you will have the ability to set the direction of the features you implement
Qualifications
At least 5 years experience as a Full-Stack Engineer or in a similar role
Experience in Python
Pandas and Numpy
Big data tooling (e.g ETL jobs, Apache Airflow, Cassandra and Snowflake etc)
Experience writing optimised and efficient SQL queries for relational databases (e.g PostgreSQL/MySQL)
Experience writing server-side backend logic (e.g Django, Node.js) and a willingness to learn and excel in API engineering
️ Have a solid understanding of modern backend engineering
Robust & scalable API development (RestAPIs etc)
Experience working on projects with scalability and performance e.g CI/CD pipelines, containerization, microservices, and automated testing
️ Experience building UIs with a modern frontend framework (e.g React)
Excited about being responsible for the above full-stack model to help BlueGamma scale
AWS:
☁️ Knowledge of principles of cloud-based services e.g compute, storage etc
Experience with specific AWS services such as Lambda, RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
Being able to appreciate cloud-based cost as our product scales
General good software principles
Code reviews
✅ Unit and regression testing
Git versioning
Writing technical documentation
Leadership skills
Able to have a product mindset and set the technical vision with co-founders
Able to simplify very technical concepts (pros and cons of said concepts) to non-technical stakeholders
Able to evaluate and justify the use of specific technologies based on their advantages and disadvantages
Soft Skills
Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to challenges
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work well in a team-orientated environment
Keen eye for numerical accuracy and attention to detail when working with large amounts of data
Others
Knowledge of financial markets is advantageous but not required