Full Stack Engineer

CAIS is the pioneer in democratizing access to and education about alternative investments for independent financial advisors, empowering them to engage and transact with leading asset managers on a massive scale through a wide variety of alternative investment products and technology solutions. CAIS provides financial advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, digital assets, and structured notes. CAIS also delivers industry-leading technology, operational efficiency, and world-class client service throughout the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade experience. CAIS supports over 50,000 advisors who oversee more than $6 trillion in network assets.  

The Role

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will play a vital role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and intuitive applications across both frontend and backend. This is a hands-on position where you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including UX/Design, product management, and other engineers. You will have the opportunity to work on both ends of the stack, contributing to the seamless integration of user-facing components with robust backend systems. 

You will primarily work with a tech stack that includes Kotlin, Spring, PostgreSQL, Kafka on the backend and TypeScript, React, Vitest, and Tailwind CSS on the frontend. Our infrastructure leverages Kubernetes on AWS and a strong CI/CD pipeline using GitHub and ArgoCD. 

As you'd expect from a modern software organisation, we are built on a foundation of DevOps principles. Our teams are long-lived, and encouraged to organize around the principles of Kanban: Fast flow of value, limiting work-in-process, and a whole-team approach to accountability, shared goals, and continuous improvement. We believe every team member has unique insights to offer, and we welcome your contributions across the board. Join us in shaping a workspace where your ideas fuel innovation and where your impact is seen and appreciated.   

Skills and Experience 

Requirements 

• Proven experience in full stack development with a strong understanding of both frontend and backend technologies.
• Backend: Proficiency in Kotlin or Java, with experience in frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, and messaging systems like Kafka.
• Frontend: Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and modern front-end development practices.
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications and solutions, particularly in environments implementing CI/CD pipelines. 

Beneficial 

• FinTech experience, particularly in investments and wealth management.  
• Experience or interest in working within a Kanban environment, emphasizing workflow visualization, flow measurement, WIP limitation, and collaborative value delivery. 
• Exposure to working in a scale-up or high-growth tech environment. 
• Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL. 
• Knowledge of responsive and accessible HTML5/CSS. 

Whilst we spend a lot of our time working remotely, we believe there's no substitute (yet) for in-person collaboration, so we strongly encourage you to be in our London office on a weekly basis to spend time with your colleagues. 

CAIS is consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work, and our culture is at the heart of our success. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can be their most authentic selves and feel inspired and supported to bring their voice forward to drive community, growth, and innovation. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers.