The Role
Build and maintain backend API infrastructure connecting private markets to partner platforms. Collaborate with the founding team to translate business requirements into production systems, work directly with partners to integrate alternatives, gather feedback, and iterate quickly while shipping high-quality solutions.
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Quick Facts
- Role: Backend Engineer
- Location: 5 days/week in NYC (Wall St office)
- Compensation: $140k - $180k + equity compensation
About the Role
You'll be building the infrastructure that powers a new era of private market access. Monark's API infrastructure sits at the center of our ecosystem, connecting private markets to the platforms where millions of investors and advisors already manage their portfolios. As a Backend Engineer, you'll work to power that system, collaborating closely with the founding team to turn business requirements into world class technology. You'll also work directly with our partners, helping them integrate alts into their platforms, gathering feedback, and iterating quickly.
About You
- You're an optimist with a bias toward action. No matter the challenge, your instinct is to look for solutions - fast.
- You're a self-starter who seeks out problems and ships high-quality solutions from scratch.
- You're willing to do whatever it takes, filling gaps, picking up context fast, and wearing multiple hats as we scale.
- You care about more than clean code. You seek to deeply understand our partners' needs and the broader business context behind everything we build.
The base pay range for this role is $140,000 – $180,000 per year.
Skills Required
- Work in NYC office 5 days per week
- Self-starter who ships high-quality solutions from scratch
- Bias toward action and solution-oriented mindset
- Willingness to wear multiple hats and fill gaps as company scales
- Collaborate with partners to integrate platform APIs and gather feedback
- Care about partner needs and broader business context beyond code
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The Company
What We Do
Monark Markets is a B2B fintech company that provides an API-infrastructure layer connecting private markets to brokerage platforms, wealth management firms, and custodians. Their platform enables these institutions to embed alternative assets, such as pre-IPO shares and private equity, directly into their existing user interfaces, allowing retail investors and advisors to access private market opportunities seamlessly alongside their public market investments without needing new accounts or complex workflows.
