Senior Software Engineer Ellevest
New York, NY

Job Description

About This Position

As a senior backend engineer with Ellevest, you will work to design, build, and support many of the core systems powering Ellevest's financial software, from cash flow and transaction libraries to our financial computation engine, as well as working on improving existing and building new product features. We follow agile methodologies and on a day-to-day basis leverage Ruby and Rails, MySQL, and Redis, among others. Our systems run on a modern AWS stack supported by exciting new technologies, and the entire backend team is encouraged to contribute to systems and infrastructure support and development in addition to working on the core product.

Responsibilities

* Design, develop, and maintain core financial operations systems
* Help plan, technically direct, and implement new features across the product
* Work with the team to design and implement important infrastructure projects using devops tools
* Improve site scalability and performance
* Provide support and guidance for junior team members

Requirements

* At least 5 years professional Ruby experience
* Good command of object oriented programming best practices
* Experience supporting and scaling consumer-facing web applications
* Good command of SQL and knowledge about proper database design and management
* Devops experience a plus (Ansible, Terraform, and AWS experience a big plus!)

About Ellevest

Ellevest is a transformative technology company created to help women achieve their financial potential. Ellevest helps women take control of their financial futures through investing, with a beautifully designed digital platform backed by an incredibly smart algorithm. Ellevest was co-founded by Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck, chair of the Ellevate Network, previously CEO of Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, formerly CFO of Citi, and author of "Own It: The Power of Women at Work." Ellevest has raised $70MM from investors like Rethink Impact, Pivotal Ventures, Valerie Jarrett, Salesforce Ventures, PayPal Ventures, MasterCard, Khosla Ventures, Morningstar, and Venus Williams.

Ellevest has flipped the traditional approach to investing with a real-life, goal-based approach. Clients select personal financial goals such as buying a home, starting a business, raising a family, and retiring well, among others. Ellevest is unique in taking into account a woman's longer lifespan and different salary curve, combined with her current financial picture, to construct highly customized investment portfolios for each of her goals. Ellevest's unique algorithms are designed to get the client to her goal number or better in 70% of market scenarios, higher than traditional financial advisors.

Working at Ellevest

Ellevest is a leading tech company in New York City, with a thriving team across our engineering, product, marketing, client experience, investments, and operations organizations. We place a major emphasis on building a team and working environment where individuals can succeed professionally and personally. As a team member at Ellevest, you can expect to make a difference through your work, to have a direct impact on the achievement of a very meaningful mission, to significantly advance your career trajectory, and to have room for fun and fulfillment in your daily life. We know that achieving a mission as critical as ours requires incredible talent and teamwork, and team is the most important thing to us.

In 2018, Ellevest was awarded the #14 spot on LinkedIn's list of most sought-after startups, as well as a spot on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list -- "identifying start-ups on the cutting edge of huge consumer, tech and business shifts". In 2017, Ellevest was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Ideas, and CNBC listed Ellevest as one of their Top 25 Most Promising Startups on a path to becoming tomorrow's household names. We are working every day to make this a reality, and create a brand and a service that closes the female money gap.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Some Benefits of Working at Ellevest

* Flexible Schedule and Vacation
* Beautiful Office in Flatiron
* Health, vision, and dental insurance
* Parental leave policy
* Retirement savings plan (401k)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Note: Instead of a cover letter, we ask you to answer the three questions at the bottom of this application.