Software Engineer

Posted:
8/14/2024, 1:03:20 PM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

Intro description:

Legalist is an institutional alternative asset management firm. Founded in 2016 and incubated at Y Combinator, the firm uses data-driven technology to invest in credit assets at scale. We are always looking for talented people to join our team.

Legalist is adding a Software Engineer to our growing tech team. You'll work closely with our other engineers to build and ship key features. You'll directly influence our entire tech stack, from standards to frameworks to architecture. We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute towards improving Legalist’s internal data processing tools and frameworks
  • Collaborate with teammates to design data pipelines and APIs, seeking and offering feedback along the way.
  • Build tools to extract data from various sources to enrich the data that we collect - we ingest a lot of data! 

Key Qualifications

  • A love for technology, API’s, and an insatiable curiosity for tackling problems
  • 4+ years of experience object-oriented language - Python (preferred)
  • Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of databases
  • Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as cloud solutions like Kubernetes, Docker, BigQuery, etc
  • You have a pragmatic, data-driven mindset and are not dogmatic or overly idealistic about technology choices and trade-offs
  • You have an aptitude for learning new things quickly and have the confidence and humility to ask clarifying questions