Senior Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate a long-term technical vision for building, maintaining, and scaling products.
• Be able to learn quickly and contribute to discussion and development across a number of different areas, including in UI/UX development, LLMs/ML, databases, and system design.
• Build out battle-ready and systems at speed, with a real emphasis on pro-active testing.
• Manage backend infrastructure and ensure security, availability, and scalability.
• As we scale, grow into a role as a senior member and culture builder.

Requirements

• Be able to develop the architecture of a complete solution and help guide the team through implementation. We are especially interested in people who have done so in environments of uncertainty.
• At least 1 year of experience leading a team or in other senior positions.
• 7+ years of experience as a world-class individual contributor.
• At least two of the following
  • 3+ years of experience with core front-end technologies, including: React and TypeScript.
  • 4+ years of experience working on backend systems, ideally with experience bootstrapping these systems from scratch.
  • 1+ years working with LLMs or otherwise working on ML related projects.
• Experience working with SQL and no-SQL databases, e.g. MongoDB, Firebase, MySQL, Postgres.
• Have the communication skills to mentor and manage more junior team members.

Helpful

• An interest in finance. Personal projects in finance or related work experience is especially helpful, but a basic understanding and interest to learn more may suffice.

Nice to Haves

• Exceptional academics
• Experience working on open-source projects or contributing to Stack Exchange
• Experience and interest in the future of LLMs/ML
• Work experience in a financial institution, e.g. an investment bank, hedge-fund, market maker, etc.
• Work experience in a startup
• Interesting work on a previous side projects or company

Why you’ll love working at Catapult

• This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead a revolution by redefining the foundational building blocks of financial infrastructure working closely with our two co-founders, one ex-academic from Cambridge and a former Meta EMEA Lead!
• Competitive salaries, equity options
• Health and Wellbeing allowances, including private health care
• Lunch is on us!
• All the equipment you need to be and feel your best
• Catapult library with the top books across disciplines for you to up skill!
• We’re backed by Blockchain Capital, Brevan Howard Digital and other leading investors, so we’re well capitalised with a significant runway