Senior Engineer, EquityZen
$130-170k
Marketplace for pre-IPO shares
Be an early applicant
Marketplace for pre-IPO shares
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-170k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help shareholders in proven, private tech companies get liquidity for their illiquid company stock while giving investors access to this new asset class.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a collaborative, organized and diligent Senior Engineer, to support the feature build-out of our industry-defining pre-IPO SaaS investment platform using a modern tech stack
- 4+ years of Full Stack Engineering experience, required
- Skills and Experience: You have a solid grasp of computer science fundamentals through coursework, internships, or personal projects. Up to 3 years of professional experience is strongly preferred, and some exposure to tools in our technology stack (Javascript, React, GraphQL, Python, Django, PostgreSQL) is a plus
- Eagerness to Solve Problems: You are excited to learn how to tackle new challenges, think critically, and apply logical problem-solving steps to help develop functional solutions
- Agility and Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are ready to handle multiple tasks and adjust priorities as needed
- Communication and Teamwork: You have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with teammates to achieve shared project goals
- Innovation and Curiosity: You have a strong curiosity about the financial services sector and a desire to create innovative solutions within a highly regulated framework. You're not just looking for a job; you're looking to grow your career and make an impact
What the job involves
- Learn and Develop across the Stack: You'll learn to build and maintain responsive, intuitive front-end features using React and Apollo GraphQL, and grow your skills in robust, scalable back-end solutions with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL in an AWS infrastructure
- Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with product teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements. With the support of senior engineering leaders, you will write clean, functional, and well-organized code that delivers on new client-centric features
- Focus on Performance and Scalability: Under the guidance of senior team members, you will help analyze and improve the performance and scalability of our platform, algorithms, and data structures
- Learn and Apply Best Practices: You will be mentored on and adopt best coding practices, comprehensive testing methodologies (including unit and integration tests), and efficient deployment strategies
- Improve Code Through Reviews: Actively participate in code reviews to help identify errors, learn from peers, and improve the overall quality of the codebase. You will learn to refactor code to enhance readability, efficiency, and reusability
Our take
EquityZen is a financial services platform connecting investors with employee shareholders at private companies. The former get the opportunity to invest in pre-IPO assets, and the latter get the opportunity to make cash from an otherwise illiquid employment benefit. It’s a model that’s helped EquityZen establish itself as a strong player in the private shares market for nearly a decade now.
Pre-market shares have been hot property in the past, however, some report that a stagnancy in the IPO market has investors taking their interest elsewhere - they don’t want wealth locked into IPOs that may take years to arrive. It’s left EquityZen with a preponderance of shareholders on the platform, and that’s pushing down private share prices.
This, however, may be on the mend - some suggest IPOs are back on the horizon after traversing an understandably rocky patch over Covid. Moreover, EquityZen sellers are offering some impressive and high demand pre-market shares: think Byte Dance Ltd, and SpaceX. So this will likely insulate the company until demand picks up again. Further bolstering the company's upward trajectory is its award for Best Retail Investment Company at the 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Awards.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2017
$3m
SERIES B
Dec 2016
$1.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $13.3m
Company benefits
- Hybrid/Remote work environment for engineering members with an emphasis on work-life balance
- Strong career progression paths are available for all tracks including individual contributors and aspiring managers
- Equity
- Competitive salary
- Full employee benefits (health, dental, vision)
- Flexible paid time off
- Stocked fridge, supply of snacks, weekly catered lunch
- 401k match
- Professional development and wellness budget
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Atish Davda
(CEO)Worked as a research analyst with AQR Capital Management, then went on to co-found and serve as CTO at Knolsoft. Held a VP role for product at Ampush, and has spoken and consulted for Dropbox, GeneralAssembly, and Wharton.
Phil Haslett
(Chief Strategy Officer)Started his career at Barclays Capital in their Proprietary Trading group trading credit and equity derivatives. Subsequently was a Vice President at Pomelo Capital, a NYC-based hedge fund, focusing on capital structure arbitrage.
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