Full Stack Engineer I/II

EquityZen

  • New York City, NY
  • $100,000-120,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 22 hours ago
EquityZen is a financial technology company, backed by leading venture and private equity investors. We are looking for a collaborative, organized and diligent Full-Stack Engineer, to support the feature build-out of our industry-defining pre-IPO SaaS investment platform using a modern tech stack.Since 2013, the EquityZen marketplace has made it easy to buy and sell shares in private companies. EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. With low investment minimums through our funds and with more than 40,000 private placements completed across 450+ companies, EquityZen leads the way in delivering “Private Markets for the Public”.THE RIGHT STUFF
  • Skills and Experience: You have a solid grasp of computer science fundamentals through coursework, internships, or personal projects. Up to 3 years of professional experience is strongly preferred, and some exposure to tools in our technology stack (Javascript, React, GraphQL, Python, Django, PostgreSQL) is a plus.
  • Eagerness to Solve Problems: You are excited to learn how to tackle new challenges, think critically, and apply logical problem-solving steps to help develop functional solutions.
  • Agility and Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are ready to handle multiple tasks and adjust priorities as needed.
  • Communication and Teamwork: You have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with teammates to achieve shared project goals.
  • Innovation and Curiosity: You have a strong curiosity about the financial services sector and a desire to create innovative solutions within a highly regulated framework. You're not just looking for a job; you're looking to grow your career and make an impact.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Learn and Develop across the Stack: You'll learn to build and maintain responsive, intuitive front-end features using React and Apollo GraphQL, and grow your skills in robust, scalable back-end solutions with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL in an AWS infrastructure.
  • Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with product teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements. With the support of senior engineering leaders, you will write clean, functional, and well-organized code that delivers on new client-centric features.
  • Focus on Performance and Scalability: Under the guidance of senior team members, you will help analyze and improve the performance and scalability of our platform, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Learn and Apply Best Practices: You will be mentored on and adopt best coding practices, comprehensive testing methodologies (including unit and integration tests), and efficient deployment strategies.
  • Improve Code Through Reviews: Actively participate in code reviews to help identify errors, learn from peers, and improve the overall quality of the codebase. You will learn to refactor code to enhance readability, efficiency, and reusability.
COMPENSATION
  • $100,000 - $120,000 annually
EquityZen also offers full employee benefits (health, dental, vision), 401k, individual professional development and wellness budget, generous time off policies and more!EquityZen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, EquityZen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. EquityZen expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of EquityZen's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.Please be aware of fake job offers coming from people claiming to be EquityZen Inc. employees. EquityZen employees and/or recruiters will never ask you for money or personal information like bank account numbers, and will not send you checks. EquityZen will always ask for a phone call or video call as the first step in our hiring process. Emails from EquityZen come only from and not other similar domains.

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