Senior Software Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance FalconXs proprietary credit management systems, infrastructure, data, and processes
• Architect and build scalable, robust, performant credit solutions for institutional clients and internal teams.
• Work with cross-functional teams (product, platform, frontend, data) to build end-to-end solutions driving the credit business.
• Experience with building transactional, performant systems at large scale, and ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Write well tested readable code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
• Work with junior team members to breakdown tasks, help in technical solutioning and unblock them when they are stuck.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and
  best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for
  these standards through code review.

Job requirements

• At Least 5 years of experience working in software development with minimum 2 years of working experience in Python or any other object oriented programming language.
• Domain knowledge in institutional financial services, lending and borrowing products. 
• Familiarity with modern web technologies like AWS cloud, MySQL database, Redis caching, messaging tools like Kafka/SQS, Kubernetes etc and good understanding of trade-offs with one technology vs another.
• Have a good understanding of object oriented design patterns to make sure the codebase is maintainable and extensible.
• Have a good understanding of operating systems concepts like multi-threading, multi-processing
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensively iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.

Bonus Criteria

• Strong familiarity with credit: this includes, but is not limited to, customer-side credit lending and firm-side borrowing, margin lending, credit risk (loss probability and recoveries), balance sheet usage, and cash flow modeling
• Candidates with a strong computer science background. Bachelor's degree in computer science
• Experience with frontend technologies like react, javascript
• Experience working in an early stage product startups