Backend Engineer

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Hybrid
Junior
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
Build and maintain reactive microservices and RESTful APIs; design schemas, write unit tests, optimize SQL; collaborate with product, design, and engineering; deploy, monitor, and analyze production services.
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About Willow Wealth

Willow Wealth is the leading private markets investment platform. We believe that private market investment products should be a fundamental part of your portfolio. That’s why we’re unlocking access to make it easier than ever to get started. We partner with top-tier investment managers to provide investors with a wide range of opportunities across real estate, venture capital, private equity, art, short-term notes, and more. All of our offerings are curated and vetted by our team to help investors diversify away from the stock market with confidence.


All Willow Wealth offices follow a hybrid work model.


About the Role


You will be part of a core engineering team building the world’s most robust wealth management platform to connect investors with borrowers. You are a self-motivated hacker and tinkerer that can wear many hats, and you're excited to build business applications that drive revenue and delight our customers. You are entrepreneurial in nature and balance building the coolest product using the bleeding edge technology with an eye on go to market timing and established stable technologies.


As a backend engineer, you’re passionate about producing well-designed, well-abstracted and reusable code which performs well and scales under increasing load. You love to learn and share new concepts and technologies. You are eager to collaborate with other smart people with an open mindset in order to deliver the “best” solution. You truly care about well-designed APIs, and get excited upon hearing about microservice based architectures!


What you'll do

  • Collaborate with a diverse global team of engineers, designers and product managers in an agile environment
  • Develop and maintain a growing repository of reactive microservices based on a technology stack including Java, Spring (IoC, Data, Boot, Cloud), Play, Akka, Docker/Kubernetes, while leveraging messaging systems, relational databases including MysSQL and Postgres, and NoSQL data stores such as Kafka & Redis
  • Design, document and implement reusable software, write unit tests, create database schemas and tailor RESTful APIs in collaboration with our front end engineers
  • Participate in the software’s development lifecycle from beginning to end; from requirements analysis, to solution design, to development, code reviews, to releasing and monitoring services on production, extracting metrics and analyzing distributed traces
  • Have strong communication skills - learn from other talented engineers, share your own experiences, be given opportunities to experiment and expand your education, do research and present work to others


Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar, or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years of software development experience in an equivalent role
  • Solid knowledge of Java (11+) programming, including experience with web application frameworks and expertise designing and implementing RESTful APIs
  • Strong foundations in object oriented programming, good problem solving skills, a proven understanding of established software engineering practices resulting in clean solutions, as well as reusable and well-tested code
  • An ability to write and optimize SQL, an understanding of relational databases, indexes, joins and de/normalization, and experience with one such database (ideally MySQL/Postgres)


Preferred Qualifications

  • An understanding of microservice-based architectures; the advantages as well as the considerable added complexities
  • Experience with the Spring ecosystem, particularly with Spring Boot, Data, IoC, and Spring Cloud
  • Knowledge of a messaging solution such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • Experience working in virtualized environments like Docker
  • Experience working with the Play framework, Akka, and/or websockets 
  • An understanding of reactive principles, eventual consistency, and event sourcing 
  • Familiarity with functional programming, and the advantages of data immutability
  • Experience with NoSQL data stores such as Redis


What's in it for you:

Competitive compensation packages, including equity

Health, dental & vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Top Skills

Akka
Docker
Java 11+
Kafka
Kubernetes
MySQL
Play Framework
Postgres
RabbitMQ
Redis
Restful Apis
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Spring Data
SQL
Websockets
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
140 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

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