Sr. Backend Engineer

dv01 is lifting the curtain on the largest financial market in the world: structured finance. The $16+ trillion market is the backbone of everyday activities that empower financial freedom, from consolidating credit card debt and refinancing student loans, to buying a home and starting a small business.

dv01’s data analytics platform brings unparalleled transparency into investment performance and risk for lenders and Wall Street investors in structured products. As a data-first company, we wrangle critical loan data and build modern analytical tools that enable strategic decision-making for responsible lending.  In a nutshell, we're helping prevent a repeat of the 2008 global financial crisis by offering the data and tools required to make smarter, data-driven decisions resulting in a safer world for all of us. 

More than 400 of the largest financial institutions use dv01 for our coverage of over 75 million loans spanning mortgages, personal loans, auto, buy-now-pay-later programs, small business, and student loans. dv01 continues to expand coverage of new markets, adding loans monthly, and developing new technologies for the structured products universe.

To get a better idea of what a year at dv01 looks like, check out our 2020 Year in Review page here: https://dv01.co/year-in-review/2020/ If that looks like fun to you, get in touch because we'd love to hear from you.

YOU WILL:

• Bring transparency to the financial markets: You will bring transparency to consumer lending, mortgages, and other asset classes, by enabling our customers at banks, hedge funds, and credit originators to quickly extract insights from large private and public datasets.
• Develop using a modern, open source stack: You will develop on top of a software stack that includes Scala + Play and interact with data by building both REST API and GraphQL endpoints. We continuously evaluate and adopt new open source technologies to solve customer needs, so the skills you develop here will serve you well beyond dv01.
• Interact with a diverse team: You will collaborate closely with other teams at dv01 to create great products. This includes working closely with the product team to understand the customer story, design team to understand the motivation behind the UI/UX, the data engineering team to understand the most efficient way to query that data, and finally front-end engineers to fully build out the product.
• Gain knowledge of the financial industry: You will have an exclusive view into the system that enables Americans to afford houses, cars, and college. You will learn about the participants, terminology, and mathematics behind this sector of the financial markets.

YOU ARE:

• A well-rounded engineer: You have a deep appreciation for engineering fundamentals holding over 6 years of experience. You understand the importance of writing tests, designing systems for long-term maintainability, and coming up with and evaluating different engineering approaches.
• Experienced developing complex products and architecture. You have extensive experience architecting data-driven products with complex workflows. You are strong in SQL and able to incorporate a deep understanding of the database and backend to build systems that provide a great customer experience through scalability, performance, and maintainability. Experience with Scala/Java/C# is a big plus.
• A visualization enthusiast: You are a data enthusiast and understand the value of visualization in communicating data insights.
• Curious to expand your financial knowledge: You are excited to learn more about the intricacies of the financial system. You are adept at learning on the job and unafraid to dive into technical finance books.

NICE TO HAVES:

• Familiarity with financial concepts, specifically structured products
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Google BigQuery, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Docker, Jenkins, Git and Github Actions
• Familiarity with data analytics tools like Spark, R, or Pandas

BENEFITS & PERKS:

• Highly collaborative culture (weekly town hall meetings, virtual cross-team coffee hour)
• Almost 100% paid benefits (medical/dental/vision)
• 401K 
• Continuous learning (prototype/hackathon day, brunch & learns, Scala overviews)
• Weekly $100 lunch allowance
• Free premium Equinox membership or $1,500 Annual Fitness Fund 
• $1,000 Learning & Development Fund
• In-house personal and performance development coach
• Unlimited PTO
• Company virtual events (Happy hours, game nights, team qi gong, book club, etc.)

dv01 is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.