Backend Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

About Us:

SmartAsset is a financial technology company with the simple mission of helping people make better financial decisions. Recently named one of Y Combinator's Top 100 companies of all time, we have raised more than $50 million in venture capital. Our personal finance tools, calculators and content reach more than 45 million people each month. Our business model is to help the in-market consumers on our platform find the right Financial Advisor or the right Financial Product to meet their needs.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek, Barron's and many more.

About You:

As part of our growth strategy, we are looking to hire a Backend Software Developer with at least 4 years of full-time professional development experience, to join our NYC-based team. You will be working on implementing entirely new features and functionality from scratch, as well as enhancing, maintaining and bug-fixing our existing code-base. You will also have the ability to work on various components of our apps, including our in-depth user-analytics, back-end/number-crunching/data-processing core or the presentation layer.

Responsibilities:

* 4+ years full-time professional experience as a software developer
* Excellent knowledge of at least 2+ programming languages (e.g. Java, PHP, Perl, C#, C++, Objective C, Ruby, Python, etc)
* Excellent knowledge of common programming patterns
* Good understanding of relational databases (SQL) and some understanding of non-relational datastores
* Knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
* Working knowledge of *nix systems, networking and internet protocols
* Good social and cooperation skills
* Excellent communication skills

Perks:

* Catered lunch 3x per week
* Friday Tastings
* Regular team social activities (book club, sports league, community service, etc.)
* Medical, Dental and 401(k)
* Educational reimbursement program