Senior Backend Software Engineer

The Company

Arta Finance is on an audacious and incredibly rewarding mission: to pave the way for people everywhere to lead more successful financial lives. We value trust, teamwork, and adaptability.

The Role

We are expanding our Trading/Ledger team within Arta to support new use cases as well as expand support for existing functionality. We are looking for a senior engineer who has the ability to design and implement key features across this system.

What you will do

Join us in shaping the future of finance through advanced technology at Arta. As a pivotal member of our engineering team, you will:

• Engineer Robust Trading Systems: Develop and enhance trading platforms that operate across a diverse array of financial products. Your work will directly support trading activities across a variety of financial products.

• Optimize Fund Movements: Play a critical role in refining the infrastructure that manages fund flows within Arta. Your solutions will ensure seamless and secure transactions, vital for our operational integrity and financial health.

• Expand Financial Product Integration: Enhance our platform's capabilities by integrating a broad spectrum of financial instruments. This task involves not only extending our existing representations but also innovating ways to accommodate emerging financial products.

• Advance System Scalability and Correctness: Take initiative in identifying and implementing improvements to both the scalability and accuracy of our automated trading systems. Collaborate with peers to drive changes that fortify system robustness, preparing our platforms to handle millions of transactions flawlessly.

• Leverage Cutting-edge AI in Trading: Work closely with our research teams to integrate the latest AI advancements into our trading algorithms. This collaboration aims to continually evolve our state-of-the-art investment platform, setting new industry benchmarks in automated trading.

• Build High-Impact Services: Contribute to the development of services that support millions of users without compromising precision. Your expertise will ensure that our platforms not only scale effectively but also maintain the highest standards of accuracy and reliability.

This role is designed for those who thrive on challenges and are eager to apply their technical skills to the dynamic field of financial technology. Join Arta and be at the forefront of creating innovative solutions that redefine the landscape of automated trading and investments.

Who you are

• Hands on experience in developing cloud services with AWS, Azure or GCP

• Deep expertise with relational as well as no-sql databases

• You have 10+ years of experience as a software engineer

• You have experience in Python, C++, Web Services

• You must be authorized to work in the United States

• You are based in the Bay area, or you are planning to relocate to the Bay area

What We Offer

• We have a robust health insurance offering for you and your family

• High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution

• Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents 

• 20 weeks of parental leave

• 15 days paid time off annually and end of year shutdown

Arta's Compensation Philosophy

We determine your level based on factors including your interview performance, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Our offers are based on salary bands that are updated periodically using market benchmarks and consider geographic location as well (for example, higher cost regions like San Francisco or New York). If you are presented with an offer, we will review the base salary, benefits, number of options, notional option value and strike price. We would like to know if you accept our offer within 7 days.

Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.

IC I: $110,000-$180,000
IC II: $160,000-$230,000
IC III: $180,000-$300,000