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Head of Engineering
full-time•San Mateo
About this role
<div style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" title="Page 1"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Join a world-class team to deliver game-changing AI prediction technologies to financial market participants.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">infima is a capital market technology startup building transformative prediction services for the $25T credit market. Our disruptive deep learning technologies deliver actionable predictions of borrower, security and market behavior that set new accuracy and latency standards in the market. Our predictions provide new, performance-boosting edges for investors and dealers, thus making them a must-have for many market participants. We are backed by leading venture capital and strategic investors.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: 700;">Head of Engineering</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: 700;">Who you are</span></p><ul><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">A seasoned, startup-centric Head of Engineering, who can be a player, a coach and a sounding board of a multi-disciplinary engineering.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">You understand the importance of reliable monitoring, deployment strategies, and a highly scalable and robust cloud infrastructure</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">You have experience designing, building, and running engineering teams that have focused on the previous bullet points.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">You can quickly iterate with product and design teams as part of a tight user-validated feedback loop and have experience in agile and ability to work with product to define a version-based roll out scenarios</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">You have experience with best practices and patterns that allow the most skilled engineering teams to communicate effectively and deliver quickly and regularly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: 700;">What you’ll do:</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">You will help your team build problem-solving skills by practicing reflective listening, asking good questions, and giving timely, direct, and kind feedback and encouragement.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Recruit, engage, and retain great problem-solvers and collaborators.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Roll up your sleeves to create new processes and keeps up with the industry trends and</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">identify new tools to use to solve technical problems.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Manage risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs inevitable in complex project delivery</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Work hand-in-hand with technical leads and experts</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: 700;">Requirements:</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Data Engineering: experience with Python, Prefect, Dask, Parquet, AWS (S3, Glue/Athena, RDS)</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Core/Full-Stack Engineering: experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI, Terraform, Golang (Google Protobuf), Postgesql, TimescaleDB, React, Redux</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Experience with microservices</span></p></li></ul></div><div style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" title="Page 2"><ul><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Expert-level understanding of engineering best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding & security standards, code review, source control, build, QA, deployment and development operations (Prior, hands-on experience as an engineer required).</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Broad knowledge of programming languages, software architecture, design and advanced data systems.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Bring a high level of technical expertise, guidance, and strategic decision making to key areas including web infrastructure, microservices architecture, machine learning, and its orchestration, data pipelines, DevOps, CI/CD, internal tools</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: 700;">Nice-to-haves:</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Experience working in a startup environment or a fintech company</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Experience building APIs geared towards developers/financial institutions</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Experience with HTTP APIs, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), Internet</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Security & Privacy mechanisms, Microservices Orchestration experience, Kubernetes</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: 700;">Prefer-nots:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">You may not be a good fit, if you have:</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Primarily large enterprise experience</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Mobile experience only</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Primary FE experience</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SymbolMT;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Long gap since picking up a shovel</span></p><p><br></p></li></ul></div>
What you'll do
- You will help your team build problem-solving skills and recruit, engage, and retain great problem-solvers and collaborators. Additionally, you will manage risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs in complex project delivery while working closely with technical leads and experts.
About infima Technologies, inc
Infima is a capital market technology startup company building transformative prediction services for the $25T credit market. Our disruptive deep learning technologies deliver actionable predictions of borrower, security and market behavior that set new accuracy and latency standards in the market. Our predictions provide new, performance-boosting edges for investors and dealers, thus making them a must-have for many market participants. We are backed by leading venture capital and strategic investors.
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As a Head of Engineering at infima Technologies, inc, you will: you will help your team build problem-solving skills and recruit, engage, and retain great problem-solvers and collaborators. Additionally, you will manage risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs in complex project delivery while working closely with technical leads and experts..
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The Head of Engineering position at infima Technologies, inc is based in San Mateo, California, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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