Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Posted Jul 2

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BlueGamma, a financial analytics platform catering to renewable energy investors and developers, is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 🚀 with an interest in financial markets, renewable energy, and SaaS. 💡

Opportunity

🤝 As the second technical hire on our team, you will collaborate closely with our co-founders to refine and enhance our product amidst a bustling and dynamic environment. ⚡

🏃‍♂️ We are looking for a proactive individual who can quickly contribute to addressing our customers' feature requests and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform. 🚀

📊 This position presents a unique opportunity to work with financial data and gain invaluable experience as a key member of a small, five-person team in a startup constantly evolving and tackling new challenges. 💼

  • Collaborate with our co-founders to develop and refine our platform's features 💡
  • Write clean and maintainable code with an emphasis on non-breaking changes 🖥️
  • Manage and optimize databases and servers to ensure high performance and availability 🌐
  • As a second technical hire, you will have the ability to set the direction of the features you implement 🌟

Qualifications

  • 📚 At least 5 years experience as a Full-Stack Engineer or in a similar role
  • 🐍 Experience in Python 
  • 🐼 Pandas and Numpy
  • 📈 Big data tooling (e.g ETL jobs, Apache Airflow, Cassandra and Snowflake etc)
  • 📝 Experience writing optimised and efficient SQL queries for relational databases (e.g PostgreSQL/MySQL)
  • 🌐 Experience writing server-side backend logic (e.g Django, Node.js) and a willingness to learn and excel in API engineering
  • 🏗️ Have a solid understanding of modern backend engineering 
  • 🚀 Robust & scalable API development (RestAPIs etc)
  • 🌟 Experience working on projects with scalability and performance e.g CI/CD pipelines, containerization, microservices, and automated testing
  • 🖥️ Experience building UIs with a modern frontend framework (e.g React)
  • 🚀 Excited about being responsible for the above full-stack model to help BlueGamma scale

AWS:

  • ☁️ Knowledge of principles of cloud-based services e.g compute, storage etc
  • 📦 Experience with specific AWS services such as Lambda, RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
  • 💰 Being able to appreciate cloud-based cost as our product scales

General good software principles

  • 👀 Code reviews
  • ✅ Unit and regression testing
  • 🔄 Git versioning
  • 📄 Writing technical documentation

Leadership skills

  • 🎯 Able to have a product mindset and set the technical vision with co-founders
  • 📚 Able to simplify very technical concepts (pros and cons of said concepts) to non-technical stakeholders
  • 🧠 Able to evaluate and justify the use of specific technologies based on their advantages and disadvantages

Soft Skills

  • 🧩 Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to challenges
  • 💬 Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • 🤝 Ability to work well in a team-orientated environment
  • 🔍 Keen eye for numerical accuracy and attention to detail when working with large amounts of data

Others

  • 📈 Knowledge of financial markets is advantageous but not required

How to apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at careers@bluegamma.io

  • Include the role's title in your subject line.
  • Send along links that best showcase the relevant things you've built and done.

Application Process

  1. Initial screening: 30-minute video call with Ahmed (co-founder)
  2. Technical assessment: up to 2 hour take-home exercise.
  3. Team and Culture Fit: opportunity to meet with team members to assess team fit and collaborative skills