Lead Software Engineer - Client Onboarding
Who are we?
Kayenta is a multiple award winning, high growth fintech company that is building a platform to revolutionise the Treasury Management industry - bridging the gap between Hedge Funds and Banking Prime Brokers through advanced data aggregation, analysis and optimisation.
Founded in 2018, we are a diverse and global team filled with a mix of finance industry veterans and cutting-edge technologists. We are passionate about solving complicated problems in this fast-moving and highly complex domain, using modern Product Development practices with high levels of collaboration and innovation.
With our main office based in London and an emerging presence in New York, we have embraced hybrid remote working and are an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a versatile and inclusive environment for all employees.
What is our purpose?
Our mission is to bring "Transparency through Technology". Our principal focus is to help Hedge Funds manage their balances and to minimise their costs and counterparty exposures. We aim to deliver a competitive advantage by creating efficiencies and cost-savings throughout their portfolios, whilst simultaneously maximising their liquidity and the profitability of their relationship for Prime Brokers.
Our number one value is Trust. We deliver a leading-edge Treasury Management solution built on cloud native systems, with the highest levels of Platform and Data security. We offer segregated and secure client specific environments, with enhanced client coverage support and flexible versioning through our Core/Module offerings.
Who we are looking for...
You are an emerging Lead Engineer, with 5-10+ years of hands-on experience, expertise in Python and experience building robust applications using AWS Serverless (or similar). You still enjoy being hands-on but are recognising the enhanced value you can bring by enabling the Stream-Aligned Engineers in your team to deliver business value sooner. Our current stack includes Pandas, Polars, Pytest and Postgres, ECS, Lambda and SQS so experience with these technologies or alternatives would be helpful.
You are an evangelist for Agile (XP) and Product techniques. Regularly engaged in pair/mob programming, you advocate typing as a tool to complement TDD, balancing quality and delivery pragmatically. You employ CI/CD by default and are curious about DDD, exploring how it can influence your architectures and particularly as we embrace Event Driven.
You are enthusiastic and innovative but also friendly, humble and with a calm temperament. You are hungry for your next challenge, ready to take a leading role in Kayenta's ambitious Product growth plans. You are adept at building trust with others, passionate about helping to grow the team around you and will be the genesis of an emerging team of Lead Engineers.
What you will be doing...
- Hands on to accelerate the core capabilities of our Client Onboarding Value Stream and working with our industry experts to improve our integration time to market.
- Working closely with our Tech Leadership to contribute to and incorporate the implementation of our loosely-coupled event-based architectural vision.
- Establishing new cross-functional practices to drive improved user experiences and process-based outcomes, for both internal and external user personas.
- Line management, coaching and mentoring the people and team around you, forming a new seam of Lead Engineers who are influential throughout the organisation.
Interview process
We understand your time is precious, so we try to keep our processes quick and as painless as possible, using a hybrid remote mix the same as our working environment.
Following initial screenings with our recruitment team, the interview will be conducted over 3 stages, subject to success at each stage:
- Video call with the CTO (60 mins). An introduction to Kayenta and a deeper dive into your CV to understand your career to date.
- Face to face engagement with the team (90 mins), you will pair program on an internal exercise. Using your own laptop and ideally TDD, you can highlight your skills and preferred working styles and we'll follow-up with questions about your experience.
- Video calls with the Executive team (30 mins each). An opportunity to delve deeper into the industry and to explore together Kayenta's role within it.