The Company
Capital Markets Gateway LLC (CMG) is a capital markets-focused fintech transforming global equity capital markets (ECM) through data, technology, and connectivity. As the preferred source for ECM analytics and the first network connecting the buy-side and sell-side for ECM workflows, we are committed to reshaping how capital markets operate. Founded in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG has completed three successful fundraising rounds and is backed by a group of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions. The CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 150 buy-side firms representing $40 trillion in AUM and 22 global investment banks. For more information, please visit www.cmgx.io.
The Role
We are searching for an engineer focused on our DevOps, infrastructure, reliability, and tooling. While this is a DevOps position, you'll be part of a team focused on building and maintaining an enterprise-level, cloud infrastructure for microservices, and cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes. The person who joins our team will be encouraged and empowered to influence new solutions that will keep our technology running smoothly and with high availability for our customers.
Our Engineering Team
The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices.
Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions using bleeding edge technologies such as AI and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions.
As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices.
Responsibilities
Design and implement tools and technologies to provision and configure an enterprise software system hosted in Kubernetes
Design and implement architecture and networking solutions within Azure
Automate/script existing processes using languages such as python and bash
Provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources using Terraform and Terragrunt
Actively monitor the application environment and respond to incidents
Conduct root cause analysis for production incidents
Oversee cloud infrastructure and recommend any potential improvements to technology or process
Contribute to team planning to solve engineering challenges
Be a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers through education and review
Have a broad awareness of related projects and industry trends, and encourage innovative practices among peers
Provide detailed feedback and suggestions to team code reviews
Document and demonstrate solutions through written documentation, diagrams, and readable code
Qualifications
Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Docker: 3+ years
Azure cloud infrastructure: 3+ years
Experience with system monitoring and alerting. Data-driven system improvements using DataDog and/or Grafana: 3+ years
Experience supporting, configuring, deploying RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch: 3+ years
Experience with CI/CD tools: Github Actions, ArgoCD or Harness: 3+ years
Experience supporting customer-facing web-delivered software: 3+ years
Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux
Bash and Python experience
Excellent communication skills in English
Our Tech Stack
Azure as infrastructure provider. We are reviewing secondary cloud options.
Docker + Kubernetes for microservice orchestration using Istio service mesh
PostgreSQL for relational db, ElasticSearch for indexing, Redis for caching
DataDog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability
GitHub for our Version Control and CI (with our own runners)
CD: Harness and FluxCD
Terraform and Terragrunt as IaaC
Python and bash for scripting infrastructure
React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps
TypeScript – 99% of our codebase is TypeScript
Latest .NET version for our backend services
GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End
Our Values
We innovate with purpose
We focus on outcomes vs. output
We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation
We are humble yet candid
We do right by the customer
What We Offer
2+ years contract
15 business days of vacation
Tech courses and conferences
Top-of-the-line MacBook
Fully remote working environment
Flexible working hours
CMG embraces our ongoing commitment to building a culture reflecting the people, perspectives, and passions it represents. We will accept nothing less than equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. With the only constant in life being change, we will always listen, learn, and improve for the betterment of our teams, customers, and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
