Backend Engineer

CAIS is the pioneer in democratizing access to and education about alternative investments for independent financial advisors, empowering them to engage and transact with leading asset managers on a massive scale through a wide variety of alternative investment products and technology solutions. CAIS provides financial advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, digital assets, and structured notes. CAIS also delivers industry-leading technology, operational efficiency, and world-class client service throughout the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade experience. CAIS supports over 50,000 advisors who oversee more than $6 trillion in network assets.  

The Role 

In the role of Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining new and existing applications that span across our portal and platform. This is a hands-on position in a cross-functional team; you will be providing elegant solutions to complex open-ended problems. 

You will mostly be coding in Kotlin, utilising GitHub and ArgoCD for CI/CD, and working with Spring, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and deployment to Kubernetes on AWS. 

As you’d expect from a modern software organisation, we are built on a foundation of DevOps principles. Our teams are long-lived, and encouraged to organize around the principles of Kanban: Fast flow of value, limiting work-in-process, and a whole-team approach to accountability, shared goals, and continuous improvement. Whilst many of our engineers remain specialised, we encourage a ‘full stack’ approach, and there is ample opportunity to cross-skill if it helps your team (our front end is built on Typescript & React). We believe every team member has unique insights to offer, and we welcome your contributions across the board. Join us in shaping a workspace where your ideas fuel innovation and where your impact is seen and appreciated.   

Skills & Experience

Requirements 

• Experience working as a software developer using Java or Kotlin server-side applications.
• Experience with Kafka or similar, and Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, etc. 
• Success working on cloud native applications and solutions in an environment implementing CI/CD. 

 Beneficial 

• FinTech experience, particularly in investments and wealth management
• Experience or interest in working within a Kanban environment, emphasizing workflow visualization, flow measurement, WIP limitation, and collaborative value delivery. 
• Multi-threading and concurrent programming knowledge is a benefit. 
• A strong desire to embrace full-stack development. This is a backend role, but we’d love it if you’re keen to move up and down the stack, and we’ll help you do it. 
• Exposure to working in a scale-up or high-growth tech environment.
• Experience in a geographically dispersed, cross-functional, agile software delivery team.

Whilst we spend a lot of our time working remotely, we believe there’s no substitute (yet) for in-person collaboration, so we strongly encourage you to be in our London office on a weekly basis to spend time with your colleagues. 

CAIS is consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work, and our culture is at the heart of our success. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can be their most authentic selves and feel inspired and supported to bring their voice forward to drive community, growth, and innovation. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.  Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers.