R&D- Senior Backend Engineer

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 Senior 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, work with product and client success teams to ensure our product success. Below are a few key responsibilities (not limited to) of your job.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coding and Development: Actively participating in coding and development tasks, often taking on more complex or critical aspects of a project.
• Software Design: Participating in the design discussions and ensuring they are scalable, high performing, maintainable, and meet the business requirements.
• Code Reviews: Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, best practices, and ensure coding standards are followed.
• Code Maintenance: Overseeing and contributing to the maintenance and enhancement of existing codebase (Java).
• Problem Solving: Solving complex technical problems and troubleshooting issues that arise during the development process.
• Quality Assurance: Ensuring that the software is thoroughly tested and that code coverage and other quality standards are met.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related technical field required; Master’s degree preferred
• 7+ years of experience as a senior software engineer
• 7+ years coding in Java and Spring framework
• Should be well versed in object-oriented programming and microservice architecture/frameworks
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Prior experience using Python
• Experience with profiling, code analysis and solving code performance issues
• Experience with testing automation frameworks and version control systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Algorithm and Data Structures Knowledge
• Experience using Git and platforms like GitHub
• Mentoring Junior developers and act as a leader within the R&D org
• Cross team collaboration 
• Minimum 3 days per week working in our office in Dedham, MA
• Permanent U.S. work authorization REQUIRED

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with frameworks such as Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, and S3
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices

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.