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Description:
Alterest is a becoming a crucial part of the lending markets. We make cutting-edge analytical products that provide deep insights for participants in frontier lending markets. The world of credit has been rapidly evolving over the past decade and so is the world of data. With a new-age, innovative, cloud-based loan-analytics platform for capital providers and loan originators alike, Alterest forms the nexus of both those worlds.

We enable customers to manage multi-billion dollar operations on a seamless end-to-end platform that leverages innovative designs and AI/machine learning.
We bring together industry data and make it easily available to provide ultimate transparency within the market.
We enable market participants to collaborate on large volumes of data securely and effortlessly.

We are currently seeking a hands-on, senior developer, to be located remotely in EU/UK (GMT +/- 2hrs) or in-person in London (where we are based) to lead the development of all technology within the company.

What’s in to for you:
The recent pandemic has highlighted the absolute necessity for tools, like Alterest, that provide transparency, actionable analytics, efficient workflows, and eliminate operational risk, so that market participants can focus on their core business.

This is a senior, hands-on role that provides ownership and rapid growth. Compensation is likely to include a generous employee equity option plan and share of business income as a bonus.

You’ll be responsible for building enterprise financial technology that will make financial markets function significantly better.

You Will:

Lead product and system development based on the following primary stack: Node.js, AWS, React.js/Vue.js, Spark, SQL.
Feel a real sense of achievement from completing and delivering on the product roadmap in less time than you thought possible.
Get hands-on with a range of technologies and practice a range of disciplines: back-end, front-end, full-stack, dev ops, machine learning, data science, data architecture.
Be a leader, a doer, and get stuff done. You don’t say “that’s not my job” - you do what it takes to deliver by being hands-on and rallying your team.
Own the process of agile planning, code reviews, automated testing, and continuous release, and manage deliverables of a distributed team of engineers.

Basic Qualifications:

Strong experience building scalable and extensible production software systems
Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) field such as Math, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry experience as a software engineer
Worked on Agile delivery products and projects
Experience developing production systems using modern programming languages and design patterns
Designed, built and implemented complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience mentoring software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters degree in a STEM field, such as Math, Computer Science, Engineering
Experience building in cloud environments. AWS knowledge is preferred
Experience developing production systems in JavaScript (Node.js) and using client-side technologies and frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js) with strong experience of both SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience in databases, data engineering, data architecture, and data science with using one or more large-scale storage, processing and retrieval systems and you are aware of how to deploy systems to run heavy machine learning models
Demonstrated passion for learning and self-improvement
Experience collaborating with customers to gather requirements and feedback
Experience designing and implementing clean APIs following RESTful concepts and/or using GraphQL
Familiarity with solution architecture especially designing solutions to complex problems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable

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THIS IS FOR AN IMMEDIATE HIRE IN LONDON, UK.

At Alterest, we make cutting-edge analytical products that provide instant and deep insights for participants in frontier lending markets. The world of credit has been rapidly evolving over the past decade and so is the world of data. With a new-age, innovative, cloud-based loan-analytics platform for capital providers and loan originators alike, Alterest forms the nexus of both those worlds.

We're VC backed and work out of a cool office in Shoreditch. Our team is diverse, made up of superstars and high achievers. Our customers are innovative, we are innovative. Our culture is that of radical transparency, agile execution and continuous improvement.

We're looking for a solid developer to join us immediately to continue building bleeding-edge data manipulation, modelling, visualisation and analysis tools.

This role would be suited for someone who loves extreme ownership. If you're up for it (be it senior or junior), you will have the opportunity to take on the responsibility to build and manage the engineering team.

Essential

Node.js
Advanced SQL
Practical, hands-on experience with AWS
Great academic track record

Desirable

Practical experience with ES6, MongoDB, Python

Intangibles

Good sense of design and ability to build software products that look and feel great

BENEFITS

You will:

Learn about next-generation credit and lending markets.
Interact with innovative market participants who are pushing the boundaries of global finance.
Have the opportunity to take on a role in a truly fast-paced, start-up environment, where you will form part of the key team that is responsible for turning vision into reality.

and other benefits like:

Medical Insurance with all sorts of cool rewards like free movie tickets and discounts
Team lunches and outings, and
Great office space with a community, free-to-attend fun events and classes.

Process

Phone screen
Technical screen (take-home test/Skype interview)
Meet the rest of the team

visit our cool office
interview with the rest of the team and CEO

* 1 and 2 may occasionally be combined

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THIS IS FOR AN IMMEDIATE HIRE IN LONDON, UK.

LATEST START DATE: 10th DEC 2018

We're looking for a solid developer to join us immediately to continue building bleeding-edge data manipulation, modelling, visualisation and analysis tools.

Essential

Node.js
Advanced SQL
Shell scripting and Unix development environment
Practical, hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, S3, EC2, Redshift, RDS, SNS, Lambda)
Great academic track record

Desirable

Meteor.js (huge plus)
Practical experience with ES6, MongoDB, Python
Master’s degree in a computing discipline

Intangibles

Good sense of design and ability to build software products that look and feel great

BENEFITS

You will:

Learn about next-generation credit and lending markets.
Interact with innovative market participants who are pushing the boundaries of global finance.
Have the opportunity to take on a role in a truly fast-paced, start-up environment, where you will form part of the key team that is responsible for turning vision into reality.

and other benefits like:

Medical Insurance with all sorts of cool rewards like free movie tickets and discounts
Team lunches and outings, and
Great office space with a community, free-to-attend fun events and classes.

Process

Phone screen
Technical screen (take-home test/Skype interview)
Meet the rest of the team

visit our cool office
interview with the rest of the team and CEO

* 1 and 2 may occasionally be combined

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THIS IS FOR AN IMMEDIATE HIRE IN LONDON, UK. VISA SPONSORSHIP IS AVAILABLE.

IDEAL START DATE: 15th DEC 2018

We're looking for ambitious developers to join us immediately to continue building bleeding-edge data manipulation, modelling, visualisation and analysis tools.

Essential

Javascript/Node.js
Advanced SQL (window functions, caching, schema design, understanding of query performance and much more)
Shell scripting and Unix command line file handling and manipulation
Practical, hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, S3, EC2, Redshift, RDS, SNS, Lambda)
Great academic track record

Desirable

Practical experience with ES6, MongoDB, Meteor, Python
Master’s degree in a computing discipline

Intangibles

Good sense of design and ability to build software products that look and feel great

BENEFITS

You will:

Learn about next-generation credit and lending markets.
Interact with innovative market participants who are pushing the boundaries of global finance.
Have the opportunity to take on a challenging role in a truly fast-paced, start-up environment, where you will form part of the key team that is responsible for turning vision into reality.

We’re can offer a market-leading combination of:

Salary between £45,000 – £65,000
Equity options between 0.05% – 2%
Incentive-based revenue sharing bonus structure

with other benefits like:

Medical Insurance with all sorts of cool rewards like free movie tickets and discounts
Team lunches and outings, and
Great office space with a community, free-to-attend fun events and classes.

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THIS IS FOR AN IMMEDIATE HIRE IN LONDON, UK. VISA SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE.

We're looking for ambitious developers to join us immediately to continue building bleeding-edge data manipulation, modelling, visualisation and analysis tools.

Essential

Javascript/Node.js
Advanced SQL (window functions, caching, schema design, understanding of query performance and much more)
Shell scripting and Unix command line file handling and manipulation
Practical, hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, S3, EC2, Redshift, RDS, SNS, Lambda)
Great academic track record, Master’s degree in a computing discipline

Desirable

Practical experience with ES6, MongoDB, Meteor, Python

Intangibles

Good sense of design and ability to build software products that look and feel great

BENEFITS

You will:

Learn about next-generation credit and lending markets.
Interact with innovative market participants who are pushing the boundaries of global finance.
Have the opportunity to take on a challenging role in a truly fast-paced, start-up environment, where you will form part of the key team that is responsible for turning vision into reality.

We’re can offer a market-leading combination of:

Salary between £45,000 – £65,000
Equity options between 0.05% – 2%
Incentive-based revenue sharing bonus structure

with other benefits like:

Medical Insurance with all sorts of cool rewards like free movie tickets and discounts
Team lunches and outings, and
Great office space with a community, free-to-attend fun events and classes.

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The Role

The role will form an integral part of the engineering team with the potential to turn into a lead data architect/scientist. This is a highly visible position with dual responsibilities, where you will be working closely with the whole team, loan originators and institutional market participants from day one, to build both data pipelines and machine learning algorithms to produce insightful metrics while designing ways to integrate these algorithms as tools within our data analytics platform.

What you’ll do

Design and build real-world data and machine learning pipelines for the lending markets
Architect ETL/ELT, data integration strategies and approaches
Use Maths, Prob/Stats and Machine learning to derive key insights and create analytical variables, metrics and models for institutional lending market participants
Refactor algorithms into a distributed processing production environment
Write highly optimised code for our internal data engineering and science toolbox
Create and manage data and computing environments in the Cloud
Develop and grow the data engineering and science team

This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in end-to-end data management for advanced analytics, data science and financial markets. We are a perfect place for quants looking for intellectual challenges of top banks and hedge funds but with the upside and benefits of working in a startup data, and machine learning engineers to gain a solid understanding of the lending industry and financial markets.

Benefits

Competitive salary, benefits and equity and/or bonus.

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