Software Engineer R&D - Backend - Junior

About ActiveViam

If you believe that data analytics can contribute to making Financial Services a more accountable and risk-aware business in an ever-increasing volatile environment, ActiveViam is the right place for you.

Founded by a group of industry experts, ActiveViam understands the data analytics challenges faced by financial institutions across trading desks, risk, and compliance. That is why we pioneered the use of high performance analytics in finance, helping the largest investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds make better decisions, explain results with confidence, and simulate the impact of their decisions. Unlike most BI players, we are not generalists. Our mission is to deliver train of thought analysis on terabytes of data in the most cost-effective way so our customers can explain what happened with confidence and model the scenarios that will optimize their business. We are a pure player specializing in risk data analytics for one of the fastest-moving and most regulated industries with a presence in the world’s leading financial market places – London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. 

Our 150 employees take pride in being experts in developing and supporting a purpose-built analytics technology that has been recognized as “FRTB Product of the Year” by Risk and the “Award for Excellence for Regtech, Big Data and Analytics” by Regulation Asia.

Choose to be different. Join ActiveViam and make a difference in data analytics for the financial services industry.

About the product

Atoti is the data analytics platform developed by ActiveViam especially for financial services organizations. This unique technology meets the specific needs of the industry in ways general-purpose databases and mass-market business intelligence tools do not.

Atoti delivers speed and precision. Unlike mainstream data analytics technologies that pre-aggregate datasets, pre-calculate metrics and pre-load dashboards, Atoti works on the fly to give users fast access to the data they need along with complete analytical freedom. This requires sub-second aggregation of complex metrics on large volumes of data, which Atoti delivers with database innovations such as in-memory column stores, bitmap indexes, work-stealing multithreading and distributed computing combined with user-defined functions that run at native speed.

Atoti is flexible, purpose-built, scalable and handles massive datasets in sub seconds. More information about our technology can be found in this paper: ActiveViam_Under-the-Hood.pdf.

About Your team

Join our R&D department located in Paris and enter an environment where you will create new algorithms, concepts, and products in the big data landscape.
We are a R&D team of 35 back end, front end and full stack engineers, focused on code quality and innovation.

As part of the backend team, you will be working on a highly advanced Java database server. Your contributions will speed up the queries thanks to new algorithms, add new types of computations to help our customers build complex indicators, reduce the memory usage, simplify our public APIs, etc.

The Role

In Activeviam, the role of a Software Engineer is to create, design and develop applications, systems or websites and also to test, improve and maintain any software that is already in place. 

Software Engineers are people who love to write code and tackle complex problems. They start as individual contributors, and aspire to become highly qualified engineers who :

• master the technical aspects of one or more ActiveViam products, 
• share their knowledge with other R&D engineers,
• develop a global vision of the ecosystem the products evolve in.

Key Duties

• Write code to improve the product or create new functionalities
• Learn the best software engineering practices with your senior and lead engineers
• Participate in design sessions
• Get acquainted with the products
• Internal customer support

Technical environment

• Java (17/21)
• Github
• CircleCI (CI/CD tool)

Your profile

• Graduated from a top-10 engineering school
• Proven programming skills with at least one object-oriented language such as Java, C++
• Good analytical skills
• Willingness to learn 
• Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking 
• Passionate about innovation paired with technical expertise

Ideally, you also have:

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability

What we offer

• An inclusive, friendly and collaborative team in an awesome office near the Louvre in Paris
• A competitive salary
• Up to two days of remote working per week
• Large company events such as summer garden party, company-wide offsite seminars
• 2 days paid leave to volunteer via our CSR Platform, Vendredi