The Role
Lead and contribute to backend-focused, data-intensive FinTech applications. Own end-to-end design, implementation, and production support for services. Guide and manage a small engineering team, mentor developers, perform code reviews, and partner with product and clients to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions. Drive technical direction, uphold engineering standards, and mitigate risks to ensure high-quality delivery.
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About Valitana
Valitana is a rapid growing FinTech startup providing cutting-edge SaaS solutions for institutional investors. Founded in 2017, our platforms have advanced financial analysis, trade flow, and portfolio management tools. Valitana provides robust, intuitive solutions allowing our clients to make informed decisions by improving their operational workflows.
With over 500+ active users, our institutional clients include CLO investors, CLO managers, hedge funds, asset managers, insurance companies, family offices, and broker dealers. Valitana was Ranked #1 in the “Best CLO Analytics Service”, “Best Secondary CLO Platform”, and “Best CLO Portfolio Management Service” in the Creditflux CLO Census for 2023.
Position Overview
Valitana is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Technical Lead (backend-focused) to help accelerate technology and business growth within a FinTech, client-facing environment. This role is suited for a hands-on senior engineer and technical leader with strong system-design instincts for data-intensive applications, who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative setting and takes ownership of delivering reliable, scalable, and secure software solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on technical expertise with the ability to lead, mentor, and influence other developers, while maintaining a strong product- and client-oriented mindset. This individual will play a key role in shaping both the platform and the people building it.
Responsibilities
The base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000. Valitana offers a competitive compensation package which includes base salary and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, healthcare with medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, and PTO.
Employees in this role will work in the office Mondays through Wednesdays with the flexibility to work remotely Thursdays and Fridays.
Valitana is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Valitana is a rapid growing FinTech startup providing cutting-edge SaaS solutions for institutional investors. Founded in 2017, our platforms have advanced financial analysis, trade flow, and portfolio management tools. Valitana provides robust, intuitive solutions allowing our clients to make informed decisions by improving their operational workflows.
With over 500+ active users, our institutional clients include CLO investors, CLO managers, hedge funds, asset managers, insurance companies, family offices, and broker dealers. Valitana was Ranked #1 in the “Best CLO Analytics Service”, “Best Secondary CLO Platform”, and “Best CLO Portfolio Management Service” in the Creditflux CLO Census for 2023.
Position Overview
Valitana is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Technical Lead (backend-focused) to help accelerate technology and business growth within a FinTech, client-facing environment. This role is suited for a hands-on senior engineer and technical leader with strong system-design instincts for data-intensive applications, who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative setting and takes ownership of delivering reliable, scalable, and secure software solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on technical expertise with the ability to lead, mentor, and influence other developers, while maintaining a strong product- and client-oriented mindset. This individual will play a key role in shaping both the platform and the people building it.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to data-intensive, client-facing FinTech applications with a focus on scalability, performance, security, and correctness.
- Own feature areas, services, and components end-to-end—from design and implementation through production support—while guiding other engineers through delivery.
- Own technical design and delivery for a defined domain or service area.
- Ensure delivery meets functional and non-functional requirements.
- Lead technical execution for client-facing initiatives, partnering closely with product, business, and client stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, maintainable solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and day-to-day guidance to engineers, including reviewing work, mentoring team members, and helping raise the technical bar.
- Lead and manage a small team of engineers, supporting career growth and skill development.
- Act as primary technical escalation point for the domain and team.
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy within agreed architectural boundaries while helping set technical direction, priorities, and execution plans within the broader engineering organization.
- Uphold and reinforce coding standards, API design, architectural principles, and engineering best practices, contributing to their ongoing evolution.
- Proactively identify technical risks, design trade-offs, and delivery challenges, collaborating with peers and leadership to drive resolution.
- Foster a culture of quality and accountability through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.
- 10+ years of experience as a Full-Stack or Back-End Developer within the FinTech or broader technology space.
- Experience of leading or managing a team of 5-10 engineers, with 2-4 years of direct management experience.
- Experience leading multi-quarter technical initiatives.
- Ability to balance business delivery with long-term platform improvements.
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers, including providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, supporting career development, and influencing technical direction.
- Strong proficiency in server-side programming languages and technologies – C#/.Net, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, SQL, Python is a plus.
- Experience with web frameworks and technologies – Angular, Javascript, Typescript.
- Strong understanding of agile development methodologies, with experience operating in fast-paced, iterative environments.
- Proven ability to operate as a self-starter and technical leader, balancing hands-on execution with strategic thinking and team collaboration.
- Experience designing, building, or supporting cloud-based architectures; familiarity with cloud-hosted systems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is highly desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: Experience or familiarity with financial products, particularly structured products.
The base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000. Valitana offers a competitive compensation package which includes base salary and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, healthcare with medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, and PTO.
Employees in this role will work in the office Mondays through Wednesdays with the flexibility to work remotely Thursdays and Fridays.
Valitana is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Top Skills
.Net
Angular
Asp.Net Core
AWS
Azure
C#
Entity Framework
GCP
JavaScript
Python
SQL
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
Valitana is dedicated to building intuitive, integrated, and customizable platforms for modern investment professionals. Valitana aims to deliver clear, concise, relevant insights and enable our clients to focus on informed security selection, asset allocation, and risk management. Vantage is our a multi-asset class trade and portfolio management platform. With extensive data warehousing capabilities, custom-built workflows, a powerful compliance engine, and numerous third-party integrations, Vantage is designed to help operations, finance, portfolio managers, traders, compliance, and IR focus on what matters most. Valitana Analytics is our CLO analysis and workflow platform. Deep dive into the analytics and relative value metrics of any deal, create your own custom analytics, run valuations with an unlimited set of your own custom cashflow projection scenarios, and quickly run price / yield tables and liquidation NAVs.
