Software Engineer

Job Description

About the Role

Software Engineer

Remote

Intro description:

Legalist is an institutional alternative asset management firm. Founded in 2016 and incubated at Y Combinator, the firm uses data-driven technology to invest in credit assets at scale. We are always looking for talented people to join our team.

Legalist is adding aSoftware Engineerto our growing tech team. You’ll work closely with our other engineers to build and ship key features. You’ll directly influence our entire tech stack, from standards to frameworks to architecture. We’re looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Responsibilities

Contribute towards improving Legalists internal data processing tools and frameworks

Collaborate with teammates to design data pipelines and APIs, seeking and offering feedback along the way.

Build tools to extract data from various sources to enrich the data that we collect – we ingest a lot of data!

Key Qualifications

A love for technology, APIs, and an insatiable curiosity for tackling problems

4+ years of experience object-oriented language – Python (preferred)

Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of databases

Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as cloud solutions like Kubernetes, Docker, BigQuery, etc

You have a pragmatic, data-driven mindset and are not dogmatic or overly idealistic about technology choices and trade-offs

You have an aptitude for learning new things quickly and have the confidence and humility to ask clarifying questions