Software Development Engineer (Backend)

About InvestSky

We're on a mission to make investing accessible to all.

Our goal is to offer an all-in-one investing solution.

With InvestSky, people no longer have to get lost in multiple apps, drown in fragmented communities across social media in search of investment insights, or pay high fees to make an investment.

InvestSky offers an all-in-one solution to a more efficient and enjoyable investing journey for the MENA investors, both new and experienced ones.

With InvestSky, you can:

Mingle: get social, meet like-minded folk, follow friends, exchange ideas

Discover: build your knowledge and understand the market with our advanced tools to gain insights

Create: buy your favourite stocks and build your portfolio

We are looking for someone passionate about building the next big thing and making a true impact in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement high-quality solutions in a timely manner. Designed and built to last and to scale.
• Translating designs and wire-frames into API skeletons and component architectures.
• Identify new libraries/patterns/platforms that we should study/adopt to continuously improve our architecture.
• Prototyping new features and wire-frames cross-functionally with the product team.
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Design scalable data models and architecture.
• Contribute to planning, roadmaps, and integration plans.
• Cost, Performance, and Security assessments.

Competencies

• Strong computer science fundamentals in system design, data structures, algorithms.
• Strong proficiency in Database Design and Software Architecture.
• Strong expertise in Python
• Experience with writing and maintaining unit tests.
• Strong proficiency in server languages, frameworks and understanding their pros & cons.
• SQL / NoSQL databases and Database architecture skills.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (strong experience with GCP is a plus).
• Accountability and Ownership: Self-driven individual who can build and maintain high scale projects end to end.

Nice-to-have

• Familiarity with container orchestration systems (preferably Kubernetes)
• Experience in implementing consumer-facing services at early-stage startups
• Basic understanding of the financial and investment ecosystems.

Benefits

• Market-standard compensation;
• Generous Employee Stock Ownership Plan in line with our belief that our employees should be owners of the company and not just contributors;
• You'll never have to pay for our premium paid plans ;)
• Being part of a founding team building something revolutionary in FinTech in the region.