Software Development Engineer Backend - InvestSky

About InvestSky

Were on a mission to make investing accessible to all.

Our goal is to offer an allinone investing solution.

With InvestSky people no longer have to get lost in multiple apps drown in fragmented communities across social media in search of investment insights or pay high fees to make an investment.

InvestSky offers an allinone solution to a more efficient and enjoyable investing journey for the MENA investors both new and experienced ones.

With InvestSky you can:

Mingle: get social meet likeminded folk follow friends exchange ideas

Discover: build your knowledge and understand the market with our advanced tools to gain insights

Create: buy your favourite stocks and build your portfolio

We are looking for someone passionate about building the next big thing and making a true impact in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement highquality solutions in a timely manner. Designed and built to last and to scale.
• Translating designs and wireframes into API skeletons and component architectures.
• Identify new libraries/patterns/platforms that we should study/adopt to continuously improve our architecture.
• Prototyping new features and wireframes crossfunctionally with the product team.
• Design and implement lowlatency highavailability and performant applications
• Design scalable data models and architecture.
• Contribute to planning roadmaps and integration plans.
• Cost Performance and Security assessments.

Competencies

• Strong computer science fundamentals in system design data structures algorithms.
• Strong proficiency in Database Design and Software Architecture.
• Strong expertise in Python
• Experience with writing and maintaining unit tests.
• Strong proficiency in server languages frameworks and understanding their pros & cons.
• SQL / NoSQL databases and Database architecture skills.
• Handson experience with cloud platforms (strong experience with GCP is a plus).
• Accountability and Ownership: Selfdriven individual who can build and maintain high scale projects end to end.

Nicetohave

• Familiarity with container orchestration systems (preferably Kubernetes)
• Experience in implementing consumerfacing services at earlystage startups
• Basic understanding of the financial and investment ecosystems.

Benefits

• Marketstandard compensation;
• Generous Employee Stock Ownership Plan in line with our belief that our employees should be owners of the company and not just contributors;
• Youll never have to pay for our premium paid plans ;)
• Being part of a founding team building something revolutionary in FinTech in the region.