Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
The company
We are sigfigWe empower everyone to achieve their life goals and ambitions with intuitive and customer-centric financial solutionsIt takes extraordinary people to disrupt decades of legacy financial practices to reimagine solutions to serve customers at scale.
We are committed to building impactful financial solutions that are accessible and affordable to everyoneUsing a combination of design, data science, and technology, we help provide people with the financial advice and guidance they need to achieve their life goalsWhether it`s through our direct-to-consumer or business-to-consumer products through partnerships with some of the world`s largest and most innovative financial institutions like wells fargo, ubs, and citizens bank, sigfig seeks to help consumers and institutions make better financial decisions.
Headquartered in san francisco, we also have amazing talent in solving interesting problems across our offices in calgary, tucson, phoenix, singapore, and new delhiCome thrive at sigfig!
The team
The platform team designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend web services that are the core of sigfig`s investment platformIn addition to software that enables sigfig`s clients to achieve their financial goals, the platform team builds and maintains tools that are used within the companyWe are a distributed team with members working from homes and various sigfig offices across the globe.
The opportunity
As a software developer, you will work closely with other engineers, qa, and product managers to expand and enhance sigfig`s investment platformYou will help across the entire software lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment and operationYou will assist with analyzing business requirements, suggest solutions, and build them as part of a teamYou will look for opportunities to simplify or replace existing systems and introduce new capabilities where needed, iterating quickly to enable the business to react to the ever-changing market.
You will truly enjoy what you do, be flexible and communicative, and relish learning new thingsThis role will report to the team`s engineering manager.
How you`ll make an impact
Design: create elegant solutions to key business problems, factoring in need for speed, maintainability, scalability, and redundancy
Implement: write solid, maintainable code for business-critical applications
Optimize: tune interactions between services and optimize database operations to help scale sigfig`s investment platform
Collaborate: work with product owners and engineering teams across the organization
Innovate: introduce new ideas, find commonality across problems, and embrace simplicity when needed
Why we value you
You choose the right tool for the right job, leveraging third party or open source solutions when sensible
You have good expertise with server-side technologies (scala, java, php, python) and experience building enterprise-grade scalable and performant applications.
You have strong sql/database experience, including schema design and optimization
You are an expert at debugging in distributed systems
You enjoy working as part of a team and have agile/scrum experience
You are proficient in at least one backend language and one scripting language with the ability to learn other languages
You can help guide the product design process by giving technical input, solution proposals, and risk estimates
You are adept at jumping into legacy systems to debug and understand how things work
You produce well-documented and well-tested solutions while balancing the need to iterate fast with the long term needs of an elegant, extensible system
You are passionate about usability and creating seamless, intuitive user experiences
You are excited about solving problems with software and like working closely with other developers and testers
You are able to join the engineering on-call rotation
Ideal sigfigian for this role
4+ years of programming experience
Interest in personal finance/investing a plus
Perks and benefits
Competitive benefits package
Flexible pto
401k with company match
$1,000 yearly wellness benefit
Employee recognition program
And more!
Come thrive with sigfig!
Founded in 2007, sigfig is backed by premier venture capital firms, including bain capital ventures, dcm ventures, nyca partners, and union square ventures as well as leading financial institutions including wells fargo, ubs, santander, new york life, eaton vance, and comericaWe`ve raised $110 million to support our growth as the #1 online investment advisor for large financial institutions.
© nvestAll rights reserved, sigfig is proud to be an equal opportunity workplaceWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employeesWe do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristicsWe encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.
