Software Engineer - Application Framework

Posted 2 Days Ago
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New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
150K-176K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • News + Entertainment • Software • Database • Financial Services
Where Credit Becomes Clear
The Role
As a Software Engineer on the Application Framework team, you will develop APIs, SDKs, and services that enhance application development using AI tools, contribute to design and production projects, and support production systems.
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Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
For more information, visit: https://octus.com/

Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more. 
Role

The Application Framework team at Octus owns the foundational platform — APIs, SDKs, and shared services — that powers application development across the organization. We're looking for a Software Engineer who enjoys solving platform problems, shipping high-quality code, and making other engineers more productive. AI is central to how we work — our team uses AI tooling throughout the entire development lifecycle, from design through code review. This isn't experimental or optional. If you're excited about building with AI as a core part of your workflow, you'll fit right in.

Build & Ship

  • Contribute to projects and shared SDKs from design through production, making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and quality
  • Contribute to shared SDKs and libraries used across the organization
  • Write meaningful tests — unit, integration, and contract — that give confidence to ship
  • Grow toward owning larger initiatives independently over time

Collaborate & Learn

  • Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback that improves quality
  • Collaborate with teammates through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
  • Contribute to technical discussions, architecture decisions, and sprint planning

Operate & Support

  • Help monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production systems in distributed environments
  • Investigate and resolve technical issues systematically
  • Maintain technical documentation — architecture, API specs, runbooks, and coding guidelines

Required Qualifications

  • Comfortable using AI tools (e.g., copilots, code generation, AI-assisted review) as a primary part of your daily engineering workflow — not as a novelty, but as a default
  • 3+ years in software engineering, with experience building backend systems, APIs, or SDKs
  • Strong backend fundamentals — willing to pick up any language quickly, and go deep on C#
  • Experience working with cloud-based systems (AWS preferred)
  • Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with multiple backend languages (C#, Python, PHP)
  • Exposure to both PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • Experience with caching layers (Redis or equivalent)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
  • Interest in building internal developer tools or platforms

At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.

The base salary range estimate for this position is $150,000 - $175,500. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

The actual compensation will be at Octus’ sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.

Top Skills

AWS
C#
Kafka
PHP
Postgres
Python
RabbitMQ
Redis
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
808 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Octus, was founded in 2013 with a simple conviction: credit decisions deserve clarity, not chaos. Markets were fragmented. Intelligence was gated. Data lived in silos. Professionals were forced to stitch together incomplete pictures while the clock kept running. We built Octus to change that. Octus is the essential credit platform that tracks the entire credit lifecycle. From origination and underwriting to secondary trading, refinancing, distress and restructuring, we follow every development across leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, private credit and special situations. We structure millions of documents, surface risks, benchmark performance and deliver expert reporting and analysis in real time. What began as a newsroom fused with legal and financial expertise has evolved into a unified ecosystem. Octus brings together proprietary data, expert-driven intelligence and integrated workflow tools so credit professionals can analyze situations, uncover opportunities, manage portfolios, execute trades and stay compliant without ever leaving the platform. Insight and action finally live in one place. Today, nearly 40,000 professionals across the world’s leading banks, asset managers, CLO managers, law firms and advisors rely on Octus to move smarter and faster. They turn to us for breadth, depth and rigor forged over more than a decade, and for the speed, integration and precision that define the future of credit workflow. Our mission is direct and ambitious: end fragmentation, collapse the distance between intelligence and execution, and transform insight into impact. Because in credit, clarity isn’t just an advantage. It’s everything. Octus: Where credit becomes clear.

Why Work With Us

Octus is where real experts work together to cut through chaos and build clarity in credit. You feel your impact here. What you create shapes real decisions in the market. The problems matter. The people are sharp. If you want work that counts, this is the place.

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Octus Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Reorg has adopted a hybrid working policy. For non-remote employees located within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our offices, the requirement is to work from the office at least 2 days per week.

Typical time on-site: 2 days a week
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