Principal Software Engineer, Proxymity
1-2 days a week in office
Investor communications platform
Open for applications
Investor communications platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
1-2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create more accurate, efficient and transparent solutions with no manual data entry or paper-based transfer.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven experience working on a highly scalable distributed system
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and experience with microservices architecture
- Proven experience working in an architect capacity, designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems
- Extensive experience with Java programming and in-depth knowledge of the JVM, including performance tuning and profiling
- Proven experience in performance optimization of relational databases (SQL Server and PostgreSQL is a plus)
- Experience with AWS services and ecosystem
- Experience with performance and load testing tools and practices
- Strong knowledge of observability tools and practices, including logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Knowledge of Python is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the Proxymity platform and its subsystems are prepared to meet future business volumes
- You will drive technical decisions, lead and oversee strategic performance and scalability initiatives, and engage in profiling and fine-tuning core parts of the platform
- You will collaborate with global tech and product teams and interface with other groups around the world
- Play a key role in setting the technical strategy for platform performance scalability, ensuring system capacity would accommodate peak future loads
- Drive technical decisions and strategies that ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance
- Oversee scale and performance projects
- Own our Load Testing framework and lead Test Automation engineers specializing in performance and load testing
- Lead initiatives to profile, monitor, and optimize the performance of platform services and components
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders to align architecture and technology direction with the tech strategy
- Work closely with database administrators and developers to design efficient database schemas, indexes, and queries
- Develop and implement performance and load testing strategies to ensure the system can handle expected and peak loads
- Lead initiatives to extend the system observability capabilities, including performance monitoring. Advocate for the adoption of modern tooling and best practices
- Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers in best practices for performance, scalability, and system design
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the engineering team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded with the ambitious goal of revolutionising investor communications, Proxymity connects intermediaries, investors, and issues in real-time, thereby transforming proxy voting within the corporate governance ecosystem.
Supported by Citi's D10XSM program, the founders saw the potential to reinvent proxy voting, leading to the development of transparent, accurate, and efficient solutions for clients, streamlining the entire proxy voting and asset servicing process. By doing so, Proxymity enhances the investor lifecycle, enabling clients to tackle complex problems and add value at every stage.
Since gaining independence as a separate entity in early 2020, Proxymity has enjoyed remarkable growth and garnered support from prominent industry players as well as forming strategic partnerships. Given this success, the company now has ambitious plans for extensive expansion in the coming future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$15m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $72.5m
Company benefits
- Headspace subscription
- Birthday off in addition to annual leave
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Improved family-friendly policies
- Work your way
- Choose your tech
- 2 duvet days a year
- 1 volunteer day a year
- 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity
- Workation - Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year
- Companywide parties twice a year
- Team drinks
- A dog friendly office with snacks and free drinks
- A company wins programme
- Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, etc
Company values
- Collaborative
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Customer Focused
- Revolutionary
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jonathan Smalley
(Co-Founder)After studying at Nottingham, Jonathan worked for BNY Mellon before joining Citi for almost 10 years.
Dean Little
(Co-Founder)Dean worked at Citi for over 14 years, rising from a Director to becoming part of Citi's D10XSM program- which ultimately led to the creation of Proxymity.
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