BlueGamma, a financial analytics platform catering to renewable energy investors and developers, is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 🚀 with an interest in financial markets, renewable energy, and SaaS. 💡
 

 


Opportunity

 🤝 As the second technical hire on our team, you will collaborate closely with our co-founders to refine and enhance our product amidst a bustling and dynamic environment. ⚡
 

 



 

 🏃‍♂️ We are looking for a proactive individual who can quickly contribute to addressing our customers' feature requests and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform. 🚀
 

 



 

 📊 This position presents a unique opportunity to work with financial data and gain invaluable experience as a key member of a small, five-person team in a startup constantly evolving and tackling new challenges. 💼
 

 



 
Collaborate with our co-founders to develop and refine our platform's features 💡
 
Write clean and maintainable code with an emphasis on non-breaking changes 🖥️
 
Manage and optimize databases and servers to ensure high performance and availability 🌐
 
As a second technical hire, you will have the ability to set the direction of the features you implement 🌟


 


Qualifications

 
📚 At least 5 years experience as a Full-Stack Engineer or in a similar role
 
🐍 Experience in Python 
  

   
🐼 Pandas and Numpy
   
📈 Big data tooling (e.g ETL jobs, Apache Airflow, Cassandra and Snowflake etc)
  
 
📝 Experience writing optimised and efficient SQL queries for relational databases (e.g PostgreSQL/MySQL)
 
🌐 Experience writing server-side backend logic (e.g Django, Node.js) and a willingness to learn and excel in API engineering
 
🏗️ Have a solid understanding of modern backend engineering 
  

   
🚀 Robust & scalable API development (RestAPIs etc)
   
🌟 Experience working on projects with scalability and performance e.g CI/CD pipelines, containerization, microservices, and automated testing
  
 
🖥️ Experience building UIs with a modern frontend framework (e.g React)
 
🚀 Excited about being responsible for the above full-stack model to help BlueGamma scale


 

  AWS:


 
☁️ Knowledge of principles of cloud-based services e.g compute, storage etc
 
📦 Experience with specific AWS services such as Lambda, RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
 
💰 Being able to appreciate cloud-based cost as our product scales


 

  General good software principles


 
👀 Code reviews
 
✅ Unit and regression testing
 
🔄 Git versioning
 
📄 Writing technical documentation


 

  Leadership skills


 
🎯 Able to have a product mindset and set the technical vision with co-founders
 
📚 Able to simplify very technical concepts (pros and cons of said concepts) to non-technical stakeholders
 
🧠 Able to evaluate and justify the use of specific technologies based on their advantages and disadvantages


 

  Soft Skills


 
🧩 Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to challenges
 
💬 Excellent written and verbal communication skills
 
🤝 Ability to work well in a team-orientated environment
 
🔍 Keen eye for numerical accuracy and attention to detail when working with large amounts of data


 

  Others


 
📈 Knowledge of financial markets is advantageous but not required


 


How to apply

 Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at careers@bluegamma.io


 
Include the role's title in your subject line.
 
Send along links that best showcase the relevant things you've built and done.


 


Application Process

 
Initial screening: 30-minute video call with Ahmed (co-founder)
 
Technical assessment: up to 2 hour take-home exercise.
 
Team and Culture Fit: opportunity to meet with team members to assess team fit and collaborative skills