Principal Backend Engineer

About The Position

FundGuard is seeking a talented Principal Platform Engineer to join our team. As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the core infrastructure that powers our financial technology platform. You will work closely with other engineers to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of our platform.
Responsibilities:

• Architect and design the core infrastructure of our financial technology platform
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers in building and maintaining the platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform meets the business requirements
• Implement best practices for scalability, reliability, and performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues

Requirements:

• 6+ years of relevant work experience with big-data pipeline technologies such as Kafka.
• Extensive experience in OOP (Java)
• Extensive experience working with Relational and Non-Relational DBs
• Extensive experience working with key-value storage and cache
• Experience with large, distributed information systems, building, and scaling data pipelines
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Dockers
• Strong passion for details and tackling complex tasks.
• Team player, fast learner, and has a “get things done” attitude.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Computer science degree from a leading university and/or technological units graduate

Nice to have skills:

• Experience working with Spark and its Ecosystem
• Financial understanding
• Operational, systems, and networking knowledge

About FundGuard:

Located in Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center, FundGuard is the new generation investment accounting utility for asset managers and their service providers. Our cloud-native, AI-powered operating system and technology platform are transforming investment operations to enable reduced fees and the ability to offer new and innovative products, including crypto-asset services, while scaling for the future.

The company is led by an experienced team with successful exits and has raised more than $150 million, backed by strategic partners including Citi and State Street, and investment firms Blumberg Capital, Key1 Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 among others

Our Last Round was on March 2024 and secured $100 million!

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001474603#google_vignette

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1dbvkjya

We offer an exciting work opportunity where you’ll develop one of the more robust enterprise applications with deep financial engines while using cutting-edge cloud technologies.

We are also delighted to share that we have been selected as one of the “50 Most Promising Israeli Startups for 2023 and 2024” by Calcalist and as one of the “21 Most Promising Israeli Startups for 2023” by N12.