Backend Engineer

About Willow Wealth

Willow Wealth is a leading private markets investment platform. We believe that private market investment products should be a fundamental part of your portfolio. That’s why we’re expanding access to make it easier to get started. We partner with experienced investment managers to provide investors with a wide range of opportunities across real estate, venture capital, private equity, art, short-term notes, and more. All of our offerings are curated and vetted by our team to help investors diversify away from the stock market.

About the Role

You will be part of a core engineering team building the world’s most robust private markets platform to connect Investors with private market opportunities. You are a self-motivated hacker and tinkerer that can wear many hats and is excited to build business applications that drive revenue and delight our customers. You are entrepreneurial in nature and balance between building the coolest product using the bleeding edge technology with an eye on go to market timing and established stable technologies. 

As a backend engineer, you’re passionate about producing well-designed, well-abstracted and reusable code which performs well and scales under increasing load. You love to learn and share new concepts and technologies. You are eager to collaborate with other smart people with an open mindset in order to deliver the “best” solution. You truly care about well-designed APIs, and get excited upon hearing about microservice based architectures!

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a diverse global team of engineers, designers and product managers in an agile environment
• Develop and maintain a growing repository of reactive microservices based on a technology stack including Java, Spring (IoC, Data, Boot, Cloud), Play, Akka, Docker/Kubernetes, while leveraging messaging systems, relational databases including MysSQL and Postgres, and NoSQL data stores such as Kafka & Redis
• Design, document and implement reusable software, write unit tests, create database schemas and tailor RESTful APIs in collaboration with our front end engineers
• Participate in the software’s development lifecycle from beginning to end; from requirements analysis, to solution design, to development, code reviews, to releasing and monitoring services on production, extracting metrics and analyzing distributed traces
• Have strong communication skills - learn from other talented engineers, share your own experiences, be given opportunities to experiment and expand your education, do research and present work to others

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software development experience in an equivalent role
• Solid knowledge of Java (11+) programming, including experience with web application frameworks and expertise designing and implementing RESTful APIs
• Strong foundations in object oriented programming, good problem solving skills, a proven understanding of established software engineering practices resulting in clean solutions, as well as reusable and well-tested code
• An ability to write and optimize SQL, an understanding of relational databases, indexes, joins and de/normalization, and experience with one such database (ideally MySQL/Postgres)

Preferred Qualifications

• An understanding of microservice-based architectures; the advantages as well as the considerable added complexities
• Experience with the Spring ecosystem, particularly with Spring Boot, Data, IoC, and Spring Cloud
• Knowledge of a messaging solution such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience working in virtualized environments like Docker
• Experience working with the Play framework, Akka, and/or websockets 
• An understanding of reactive principles, eventual consistency, and event sourcing 
• Familiarity with functional programming, and the advantages of data immutability
• Experience with NoSQL data stores such as Redis

What's in it for you:

Competitive compensation packages, including equity

Health, dental & vision coverage 

Unlimited PTO

Wellness stipend