R&D- Senior Backend Engineer

FundGuard is a rapidly growing software technology company that still embodies a small start-up culture. Our primary customers are global custody banks, asset servicers and institutional asset managers. We are hiring Boston-based Senior Backend Software Engineers to develop solutions to our client’s business needs on tight timelines.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining our investment accounting software. You will work in an agile development team to develop and deliver solutions, work with product and client success teams to ensure our product success. Below are a few key responsibilities (not limited to) of your job.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coding and Development: Actively participating in coding and development tasks, often taking on more complex or critical aspects of a project.
• Software Design: Participating in the design discussions and ensuring they are scalable, high performing, maintainable, and meet the business requirements.
• Code Reviews: Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, best practices, and ensure coding standards are followed.
• Code Maintenance: Overseeing and contributing to the maintenance and enhancement of existing codebase (Java).
• Problem Solving: Solving complex technical problems and troubleshooting issues that arise during the development process.
• Quality Assurance: Ensuring that the software is thoroughly tested and that code coverage and other quality standards are met.

Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Cassandra, Elastic Search & REDIS, Azure, AWS

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for career growth and advancement in a rapidly evolving financial sector.
• A collaborative and innovative work environment.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field from leading Universities
• 6+ years of experience as a senior s/w engineer
• Very strong experience in coding in Java and using Spring Boot framework
• Experience in the fintech domain preferred
• Experience with corporate actions preferred
• Should be well versed in object-oriented programming and microservice architecture/frameworks 
• Experience with profiling, code analysis and solving code performance issues
• Experience with testing automation frameworks and version control systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Readily able to commute to our office in Dedham MA 3 days a week (MUST)
• Employment authorization in the US is required 

Nice to have Skills:

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with frameworks such as Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, and S3
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.

About FundGuard: 

FundGuard is the new generation investment accounting utility for asset managers and their service providers. Our cloud-native, AI-powered operating system and technology platform are transforming investment operations to enable reduced fees and the ability to offer new and innovative products, including crypto-asset services while scaling for the future.

The company is led by an experienced team with successful exits and has raised more than $150 million, backed by strategic partners including Citi and State Street, and investment firms Blumberg Capital, Key1 Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 among others

We offer an exciting work opportunity where you’ll develop one of the more robust enterprise applications with deep financial engines while using cutting-edge cloud technologies.

Explore exciting career opportunities at fundguard.com/careers and follow us on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/fundguard.