Senior Backend Engineer | Amsterdam

About Us

Provable is modernizing decades old infrastructure in the traditional capital markets by bringing together the brightest minds in engineering and finance. Our two teams, based in Amsterdam and New York, work hand in hand to build, enhance, and operate an SEC Registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) for the $8TN+ Securities Finance Market that underpins the global financial system.

Our cloud-native platform has been built entirely in house from scratch to enhance and replace old technology stacks composed of disparate, costly, and inefficient systems. We work closely with the largest clearing house in the world, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (the DTCC), and some of the most prominent financial institutions across the globe. Our mission is to correct a long broken market structure by providing a neutral, value driven, full scope offering to market participants with varying needs and requirements. Our pragmatic approach to engineering is at the heart of what we do, and we maintain the highest standards of integrity, quality of work, and transparency in all that we do. We are a small, but growing team looking for hard working, prideful, and kind individuals to help us drive our mission forward.

Behind all of this sits novel technology backed by research in the field of cryptography - and it’s not blockchain! Our long term vision is that with a foundation built on core infrastructure, and a reputation built on trust, we can shepherd solutions to some of the financial worlds’ largest problems through our expertise in Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). But first, we need to succeed on the enormous opportunity in front of us in Securities Finance...

The Role

Our system architecture contains multiple components to serve the needs of a highly complex and complicated sector of the capital markets. Securities Lending workflows that are managed by our system rely on a combination of pre-trade, trade matching, ongoing life cycle management, reporting, and multiple layers and endpoints of connectivity. We have built a robust UI that sits atop all of this, along with an API layer used for direct server to server integration. You will work on developing the various (new) systems that facilitate the different aspects of the platform that together with our product and business team. To achieve this, you are someone passionate about delivering a high quality experience to customers, and anticipating demands of a rapidly scaling and highly complex ecosystem.

Requirements

• 5-10+ years of broader experience, ideally in a startup that went through a rapid growth period and supported a large and diversified user base
• Ability to communicate effectively with Product, Engineering, and Business team members
• Own and drive backend projects from inception to implementation
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through; appreciation for well-designed, simple, maintainable systems
• Team player with a positive attitude, strong work ethic, and desire to attack problems in real-time
• We are building systems that run in environments with very little tolerance for error and maintain high SLAs, so you'd do well with a perfectionist streak, but not to an impractical extent. Perfect is the enemy of good.
• Knowledge of and/or experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on institutional trading applications is a plus, but not a necessity
• You care… deeply… about the work you are doing equally among the most mundane or most enjoyable tasks

Nice to have

• Experience with Go
• Familiarity with Google Cloud and/or Kubernetes
• Experience with distributed systems and async communication
• Experience with capital markets infrastructure including exchanges, trading venues, clearance and settlement ecosystems
• Understanding of equity, fixed income, and derivatives products and trading strategies
• Understanding of financing markets and underlying workflows
• Understanding of execution systems and related components such as smart order routers and algorithmic trading products
• Have worked in environments with:
  • That heavily interact with databases and message queues
  • Have strict availability requirements
  • and/or have a lot of connectivity with external partners / customers
• Experience in a Startup environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary: depending on education/work experience.
• Vacation days: 25 days of holiday per year based on full time employment.
• Working hours: We operate on a hybrid basis currently, with 2 days with everyone in the office, 1 day optional and 2 days where most people are working from home. We believe that in person, real-time collaboration is the best form of communication, but understand that everyone works differently. Due to the serious nature and location of our existing commercial business we rely on common sense, over communication, and flexibility from our teammates across regions on managing their time to ensure the customers come first.

We are eager to get to know you and look forward to working with you.

Please email job.rs2dm@provablelabs.recruitee.com to apply to this position.