Senior Backend Product Engineer, CAIS
$95-125k
2-3 days a week in office (Old Street, London )
Alternative investment platform
Be an early applicant
Alternative investment platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$95-125k
2-3 days a week in office (Old Street, London )
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratise access for independent financial advisors by breaking down barriers that prevent them from connecting with experienced alternative asset managers.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working as a software developer with Java or Kotlin server-side applications
- Track record of turning business problems into working software, with a clear, measurable impact
- Experience building and running mission-critical services in production, from CI/CD through to monitoring, alerting and incident response
- Strong testing habits across unit, integration and end-to-end tests, with good judgment about what to test at each level
- Strong experience with Spring (Boot, Data, Security), relational database design, REST API design, and Kafka or a similar event streaming platform
- Experience working AI-first: using AI agents to build software, with an understanding of how LLMs work and good judgement about when to trust their output
- Technical leadership within your team, including mentoring less experienced engineers and setting and sharing engineering standards
- Clear communication, including explaining technical decisions to non-engineers
Desirable
- Financial services experience, ideally capital markets
- Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Postgres, AWS, Terraform
- TypeScript and React, and/or motivation to try full stack development
- Experience building AI or agentic applications
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Product Engineer to join our Capital Markets technology team in London
- This is a hybrid, hands-on role: you’ll design, build and run systems across Pre-Trade, Trade and Post-Trade, covering Structured Investments, Equity IPOs, Hedging & Monetization, ETFs, and more
- We put a lot of emphasis on the “product” in product engineer
- You’ll work alongside product managers and directly with the business to turn open-ended problems into working software, and the results show up in how a fast-growing company performs
- AI is a big part of how we work: the team uses it throughout the development lifecycle and has already shipped several agentic features
- You’ll help build the next ones
- We work in small, autonomous teams using the Kanban principles of optimizing flow and limiting WIP
- The team owns its work together, from shaping the problem through to running it in production
- We collaborate closely with colleagues and stakeholders in New York
- Engineers own their work from shaping the problem through to running it in production
- While we have access to QA expertise, we consider quality to be everyone’s responsibility, so engineers own testing too
- We care about strong engineering fundamentals, especially as AI changes how we build
- You’ll mostly write Kotlin, working with Spring, Postgres, Elasticsearch and Kafka, and deploying to Kubernetes on AWS through GitHub and ArgoCD
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Financial advisors often face challenges in accessing education and alternative investment funds due to the absence of an integrated platform for discovering these opportunities. This gap can hinder their ability to offer clients diverse investment options and make informed decisions.
CAIS addresses this need by providing an online marketplace that facilitates direct communication between financial advisors and asset managers regarding alternative investments. The platform sources expert advice across various sectors, including hedge funds, private equity, credit, real estate, and digital assets, allowing advisors to access valuable insights and opportunities.
With thousands of financial advisors utilising its services, CAIS oversees more than $1.2T in assets. The company has partnered with major custodians like Fidelity and Schwab, collectively managing over $6T in assets for more than 15,000 advisors. Following substantial funding and achieving unicorn status in 2022, CAIS is now focused on advancing its technology, enhancing customer experiences, and digitising product operations for both fund managers and financial advisors
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$225m
SERIES C
Total funding: $395m
Company benefits
- Healthcare & wellness: We offer highly subsidized medical, dental, vision plan options, and monthly reimbursements to support your lifestyle outside of work
- Coverage Waiver Allowance: Have benefits through another source? Receive a monthly allowance for waiving coverage
- Voluntary benefits: Enjoy discounted pricing on virtual marketplace retail benefits, pet insurance, legal, identity theft, critical illness, hospital coverage, and additional life and AD&D insurance
- Paid parental leave: New parents receive up to 16 weeks of fully paid leave
- Flexible PTO: Take the time you need in coordination with your team and manager. Plus, enjoy nine paid holidays throughout the year
- 401(k) matching: Participate in a comprehensive 401(k) plan with a 4% match
- Free Food: Take advantage of our in-office lunch program and a fully stocked kitchen
- Team events: Join our monthly happy hours, team building activities, and other events to ensure we stay connected
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Matt Brown
(Founder & CEO)Previously the Founder and Managing Principal at Brown Simpson Asset Management for 5 years and Managing Director at Fairfield Greenwich Group for 3 years.
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