Full-Time Senior Backend Engineer

We believe that in the future, investors won't pick stocks - they'll pick strategies.Join the Composer team as we usher in the future of investing.

Composer allows retail investors to create their own strategies with the power of AI - and publish them directly in Composer's community. Users can then remix, collaborate and share investing strategies with each other.

We seek to empower the creativity and ingenuity of everyday retail investors by giving them the tooling normally reserved for hedge funds and exclusive Wall St institutions.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to be a critical part of Composer's rapid growth. You will balance the roles of individual contributor, mentor, systems architect and advisor.

Your deep expertise in software engineering means you are prepared to disrupt the finance industry; you're just looking for an environment that rewards you for doing it.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Composer, you will:

• Be responsible for designing, building, monitoring and maintaining critical pieces of our infrastructure.
• Work closely with Product, Ops, Design and the executive team to ensure our work solves customer problems and drives growth.
• Maintain and improve our trading, backtesting and accounting systems as we continue to rapidly scale.

Projects you will work on:

• Incrementally redesign our trading and backtesting processes to support rapid growth.
• Develop innovative tools to help users create industry-leading trading strategies.
• Build iron-clad vendor integrations, accounting systems, and data reconciliation processes.

You may be a fit if:

• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer.
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced collaborative environment.
• Proven experience with database design, system architecture, and software optimization.
• Have familiarity with cloud platforms (we use GCP).
• You have read our values and feel that you would do well here.
• Clojure experience is a plus but not a requirement – self-motivated learning is.
• University degree in Computer Science or similar.

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