R&D- Backend Engineer (Mid-Career)

FundGuard is a global FinTech firm with offices in Boston, London, Tel Aviv, NYC and Toronto. Our primary customers are global custody banks, asset servicers and institutional asset managers. We are driving the future of AI-driven investment accounting SaaS! In fact, we were recently named to CB Insights’ List of the 100 Most Innovative Fintech Startups.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining our investment accounting software. You will work in an agile development team to develop and deliver solutions, and work with product and client success teams to ensure our product success. You will utilize your prior experience in the tech stack (Java, Spring Boot, Python, Cassandra, Elastic Search & REDIS, Azure, AWS) to develop, enhance and test the product.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Actively participate in coding and development tasks, often taking on more complex or critical aspects of a project.
• Participate in design discussions and ensure they are scalable, high performing, maintainable, and meet business requirements
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality
• Maintain and enhance the existing codebase
• Solve complex technical problems
• Troubleshoot issues that arise during the development lifecycle
• Ensure that code coverage and other quality standards are met through thorough testing
• Work cross-functionally to ensure product deliverables are met 

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related technical field required; Master’s degree preferred
• 5+ years of technical software development experience required
• Strong experience in coding in Java and using Spring Boot framework
• Should be well versed in object-oriented programming and microservice architecture/frameworks 
• Experience with profiling, code analysis and solving code performance issues
• Experience with testing automation frameworks and version control systems
• Working experience with modern technology frameworks and database systems (Cloud Native/REST APIs/No SQL Database/React/Redis/Elastic) is a plus
• Algorithm and Data Structures Knowledge
• Experience using Git and platforms like GitHub
• Permanent U.S. work authorization REQUIRED
• Minimum of 3 days onsite in office location; our office is in Dedham MA 

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with frameworks such as Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, and S3
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
• At least 5 years of technical and/or financial services experience; experience in the FinTech domain is preferred

About FundGuard:

FundGuard is the new generation investment accounting utility for asset managers and their service providers. Our cloud-native, AI-powered operating system and technology platform are transforming investment operations to enable reduced fees and the ability to offer new and innovative products, including crypto-asset services while scaling for the future.

The company is led by an experienced team with successful exits and has raised more than $150 million, backed by strategic partners including Citi and State Street, and investment firms Blumberg Capital, Key1 Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 among others.

We offer an exciting work opportunity where you’ll develop one of the more robust enterprise applications with deep financial engines while using cutting-edge cloud technologies.

Explore exciting career opportunities at fundguard.com/careers and follow us on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/fundguard.