Backend Engineer
9fin, London
What you will do
- This role is the opportunity to take on the technical leadership on projects, defining and designing systems, making quick proof of concepts and working closely with Product and our Clients.
- Write code and lead others in the team in delivering new service functionality, implementing API’s, data routing/processing and automation mechanisms.
- Development and engineering primarily on the backend services and web application hosted tools and systems of the 9fin platform.
- Taking a leading role within project teams as an IC, running code reviews and mentoring of junior developers, involvement in early research and experimentation with new technologies providing input for new features and products.
- Continually improve on the 9fin codebase taking the chance to automate, refactor and document when you can.
- Variety: Our web platforms are incredibly diverse, from complex financial data modelling, capturing environmental, emission, energy data, incorporation of ML/AI prediction services, data visualisation serving and automation systems.
- Collaboration and teamwork: Cross functional teams are formed for all projects including the appropriate domain expertise from 9fin financial, legal and editorial colleagues. This allows the best quality information and feedback to go directly to engineering project teams. Your ability to explain and break down complex projects to non technical audiences will enable productive and efficient team progress.