Full Stack Functional Engineer

About CAIS

CAIS is the leading alternative investment platform for financial advisors who seek improved access to and education about alternative investment funds and products.

CAIS provides financial advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies including, hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate and structured notes, allowing them to capitalize on opportunities and/or withstand ever-changing markets. Additionally, CAIS provides an industry-leading learning system, CAIS IQ, that helps advisors learn faster, remember longer and improve client outcomes.

The Product & Technology team’s mission is to catapult the firm forward. We are a team of productive individuals with diverse qualifications, experienced in building excellent products using cutting-edge tech. To achieve our ambitious goals, we leverage functional programming, automation, reproducibility, testing, visibility and rapid delivery.

You Will:

• Simplify and refactor existing Java code.
• Develop new systems using Elixir and Elm with full-stack functional tests and modern deployment practices.
• Be involved in the full product lifecycle: from product inception, to deployment and monitoring in production.

What You Bring:

• You love to code and are aligned with the ideas of software craftsmanship. You have a proven ability to solve open-ended problems in an elegant, scalable manner. You are smart and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, great communication, and a teamwork ethic.

We’re searching for strong developers with 1+ years of experience and a background in:

• Functional programming
• Back-end technologies (Java, SQL, Elixir) and Front-end technologies (Javascript, Elm)
• Running applications in production
• Support tooling (docker, ansible, scripts, AWS)
• Test Driven Development

Bonus Points:

• You are comfortable with the POSIX programming environment and tools such as: sh, make, docker, linux, emacs or vim, ssh, awk, sed, grep, elixir, java, javascript, elm, ansible, git, curl, mysql, etc.
• You appreciate the old-school UNIX philosophy and the synergy of small programs, working well together. You have a few `awk` tricks up your sleeve!