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Remote Senior Full-Stack Engineer (16 views)

BlueGamma
London, Uk
May 31, 2023
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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

How to apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at [email protected]
  • Include the role’s title in your subject line.
  • Send along links that best showcase the relevant things you’ve built and done.

Application Process

  1. Initial screening: 30-minute video call with Ahmed (co-founder)
  2. Technical assessment: up to 2 hour take-home exercise.
  3. Team and Culture Fit: opportunity to meet with team members to assess team fit and collaborative skills
JOB IS EXPIRED.