Senior Software Engineer

Intro description:

Legalist is an institutional alternative asset management firm. Founded in 2016 and incubated at Y Combinator, the firm uses data-driven technology to invest in credit assets at scale. We are always looking for talented people to join our team.

Where You Come In:

1. Help to design and implement the architecture of a large-scale data pipeline system
2. Design, implement, and maintain various components of our ELT data processing infrastructure
3. Collaborate with our product and business teams to understand/anticipate requirements to strive for greater functionality and impact in our data processing systems
4. Scale architectural design work through data engineering, data governance, and solutions architecture
5. Lead development of data architecture best practices, standards, design review processes, and creation of repeatable design documents
6. Comfortable working in a fast-paced high-growth business

1. 4+ Years experience with Python for automation and data wrangling
2. Production experience in high-throughput distributed system
3. Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, tools and monitoring highly recommended (Airbyte, DBT, Bigquery, Redshift)
4. Ability to develop and maintain all aspects of a data processing pipeline end to end (Extract, Load, Transform, Monitor, Document)
5. Experience cleaning and wrangling data from multiple disparate structured and semi-structured sources including (HTML, XML, REST, GraphQL, PDF, JSON, and spreadsheets)
6. Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as containerization tools like Docker and orchestration such as Kubernetes or others
7. Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub
8. Good understanding of different types of databases (Postgres, Redis, Google Datastore, Google Bigtable, etcd)
9. Mastery of computer science basics: Algorithm, OOP, SQL, ORM, Recursion, Memoization, Caching, Common Design Patterns

1. Experience with microservices architecture would be a plus
2. Experience with DevOps
3. Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI, Grafana, Tableau

1. A competitive salary, package and the chance to make your mark at a fast-growing FinTech company
2. An amazingly talented and supportive team, founders, and investors
3. Focus on personal career growth and development, with options for professional training
4. Flexibility with working hours, focus is on output and professional performance
5. Flexibility with working location, again focus is on output and quality of work
6. Brand new technology and industry best practices. Strategic experimentation and innovation is welcomed and appreciated