Backend Software Engineer, Opto Investments
$125-225k
+ Equity
Private market access for independent investment advisors
Open for applications
Private market access for independent investment advisors
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$125-225k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To ensure that the financial system is routing money to the best ideas while helping people build and protect their long-term financial health.
Role
Who you are
- 4-year technical degree (or equivalent work experience)
- 2+ years software development experience
- Experience building scalable distributed systems
- Experience interfacing with financial technology APIs and data providers
- Experience designing and building REST APIs
- Experience with domain and data modeling
- Experience with the software development lifecycle (CI/CD, Git, etc)
- Experience with cloud computing architectures and tooling - particularly AWS
- Experience using AI / LLMs for data extraction, data interrogation, and document generation
- Demonstrated background / interest in investment management
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to execute in a fast-paced startup environment
- Excellent communication skills and grace under pressure
What the job involves
- Software Engineers at Opto are tasked with the challenge of turning complex business problems into elegant and pragmatic engineering solutions
- We are context-driven, customer- and stakeholder-empathetic builders of tools and systems
- We are end-to-end owners of engineering problems and solutions who constantly challenge one another to evolve as builders and collaborators
- Oh, and we have fun along the way, because otherwise, what's the point
- Our tech stack consists of a series of React-based Next.js Typescript applications hosted in Vercel
- Behind that a collection of Aurora-backed Python and Java REST API services are hosted as containerized applications in AWS
- We make use of AWS Lambda for asynchronous tasks and we rely on Snowflake for data ingestion and warehousing
- Our service deployments are completely automated and execute multiple times daily
- Our tech stack continues to evolve, driven by our shared principles of optimizing for modularity, scalability, and team-level service ownership
- Be accountable for the delivery of high quality software projects in coordination with teammates and stakeholders on mutually agreed upon timelines
- Seek context and rapidly iterate on solutions to eliminate ambiguity and drive projects forward
- Participate actively in all phases of product development across specification, implementation, QA testing, deployment, and operations
- Foster a culture of collaboration by actively engaging in discussions, documentation, and code review
- Participate actively in engineering recruiting (interviewing, problem specification, role ownership, etc)
- Raise your hand when you need help - don’t hesitate to reach out to stakeholders (product, teammates, managers, etc) to unblock your progress
Our take
For investment advisors looking to put together strong portfolios for clients, private investments represent a vast and attractive section of the market. However, these assets remain underused, with advisors having on average only 0-4% of their wealth invested in them, due in part to restricted access and lack of appropriate resources. Opto Investments enables Registered Investment Advisors to “level up” their practices, by providing access and insight into the private investment market.
Traditionally, access to private investments has been restricted to those with large teams of specialists who are able to assess the market and fill out the too-often convoluted paperwork. Opto Investment supplies a platform which combines these processes, allowing RIAs to explore the private market landscape and turns insights into actionable investments. The process is managed from start to finish, incorporating client goals throughout, with the company leading advisors from sourcing and diligence all the way to investor servicing and reporting.
Opto Investments has already partnered with over 80 Registered Investment Advisors, and it has raised huge amounts of funding. The company will use these funds to secure further investment opportunities for customers, scale its business and hire additional talent.
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Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2022
$145m
SERIES A
Total funding: $145m
Company benefits
- Work From Home Stipend: A one-time reimbursement to help you set up everything you need for your remote office.
- Open Travel Policy: Travel anywhere to collaborate with our team in person.
- Professional Development Reimbursements: Annual reimbursements for books and education to help you grow from anywhere.
- Health insurance: We are proud to cover 100% of the premium for you and your dependents' medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Unlimited PTO: Solving hard problems is hard work. We want to make sure that you take the time you need to recharge.
- 401k Fund: Invest in your future. We offer every full-time employee a 401k account, with more investment perks coming soon.
- Fitness stipend: A monthly fitness reimbursement for classes and memberships to ensure you're able to invest in your health.
- Commuter benefits: Reimbursement for public transportation and parking to keep office travel simple.
- Parental leave: Generous paid leave gives parents time and space to invest in being there to support their family as it grows.
Company values
- Invest In Authentic Partnerships - People are our most valuable investment. We understand how critical long-term relationships with our clients and colleagues are to our success. To make that possible, we insist on genuine communication, thoughtful collaboration, and inclusive thought externally an internally
- Act Like An Owner - We trust and empower our teammates to work autonomously. We take pride in our wok and we hold ourselves to high standard, knowing that our individual contributions are critical to our collective successes as an organisation
- See Problems As Opportunities - We are a company of builders, makers, and innovative thinkers. We thrive when faced with ambiguity and always seek creative ways to pave a path forwards. We champion collaboration and creative thought to solve complex problems and find scalable solutions
- Work Smart and Move Fast - We are intelligent and scrappy with a bias for action. We push ourselves and each other to use our craft to explore, test and validate ideas early and often. We discover innovative solutions and then act on them quickly. We don’t let the pursuit of perfection get in the way of progress
- Be Compassionately Candid - We deeply value transparency, honesty, and direct, actionable feedback. We invest in building trust and respect amongst our colleagues so that we can communicate in a productive way. We always assume positive intent and deliver and receive feedback with respect and clarity
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
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Leadership
Mark Machin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Board advisor, Investment Strategies Committee & International Advisory Board at GIC. Board Member at Serendipity Capital. Former President and CEO of CP Investment Board.
Jacob Miller
(Co-Founder)Build Executive at 8VC. Former Advisor and Portfolio Strategist at EQUIAM. Founder of Periscope Analysis.
Matt Reed
(Co-Founder & Head of Engineering)Former Director of Engineering, Data Integrations & Analytics at Addepar. Previous experience as a Software Architect and Control Systems Engineer.
Kamal Jafarnia
(Co-Founder & General Counsel)Former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Artivest. Previously worked as an Attorney At Law and Regulatory Compliance Consultant.
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