Software Engineer, Octus
Application Framework
$150-175.5k
+ Bonus
Unleashing insights for accelerated financial decisions
Open for applications
Unleashing insights for accelerated financial decisions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$150-175.5k
+ Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower subscribers to discover and synthesize the information that matters through the combination of passionate experts and innovative technology.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable using AI tools (e.g., copilots, code generation, AI-assisted review) as a primary part of your daily engineering workflow — not as a novelty, but as a default
- 3+ years in software engineering, with experience building backend systems, APIs, or SDKs
- Strong backend fundamentals — willing to pick up any language quickly, and go deep on C#
- Experience working with cloud-based systems (AWS preferred)
- Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
Desirable
- Experience with multiple backend languages (C#, Python, PHP)
- Exposure to both PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Experience with caching layers (Redis or equivalent)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
- Interest in building internal developer tools or platforms
What the job involves
- The Application Framework team at Octus owns the foundational platform — APIs, SDKs, and shared services — that powers application development across the organization
- We're looking for a Software Engineer who enjoys solving platform problems, shipping high-quality code, and making other engineers more productive
- AI is central to how we work — our team uses AI tooling throughout the entire development lifecycle, from design through code review
- This isn't experimental or optional
- If you're excited about building with AI as a core part of your workflow, you'll fit right in
- Contribute to projects and shared SDKs from design through production, making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and quality
- Contribute to shared SDKs and libraries used across the organization
- Write meaningful tests — unit, integration, and contract — that give confidence to ship
- Grow toward owning larger initiatives independently over time
- Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback that improves quality
- Collaborate with teammates through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to technical discussions, architecture decisions, and sprint planning
- Help monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production systems in distributed environments
- Investigate and resolve technical issues systematically
- Maintain technical documentation — architecture, API specs, runbooks, and coding guidelines
Our take
Octus, formerly Reorg, is a global provider of credit intelligence, data and analysis of issues affecting the distressed debt, event-driven and leveraged finance markets. The company sets itself apart by taking an approach that combines reporting with financial and legal analysis, providing a holistic view and delivering that view in real-time.
Octus has fundamentally changed the way in which financial and legal professionals access complex business information. Its service reaches over 25,000 people across a variety of institutions and its subscription-based service is giving organisations the ability to replace the work of junior attorneys.
Octus garnered considerable interest from several private equity and strategic rivals due to its expensive subscription-based services that have proven to result in stable growth for clients. Octus's services are particularly valuable and its 2022 buyout by British global investment firm Permira have opened the doors to vast opportunities for Octus's further growth.
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Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits
- A flexible, hybrid working policy with home office reimbursements
- Reimbursements for career development and continuing education
- Generous paid time off – including vacations, sick leave and parental leave
- Employee referral bonuses
- Gym subsidies and other fun fitness benefits
- Kudos program to recognize and reward colleagues
- Manager training programs
Company HQ
NoMad, New York, NY
Leadership
Kent Collier
(Founder & CEO)Experienced Analyst having previously worked at Catalyst Investment Management and Millennium Partners, also worked as the Vice President at Assurant Asset Management.
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