Backend Developer

Proxymity does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Proxymity encourages application from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants

About Proxymity

Proxymity is a market leading digital investor communications platform focused on providing regulatory compliant products, focused initially on Proxy Voting and Shareholder Disclosure services. Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from the very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole capital markets ecosystem, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from global consortium of some the industry’s most influential financial institutions.

About Us - Proxymity

Proxymity’s service offering is now a Global one, matching the needs of our custodian and broker community respectively. This is reflected by a fast-growing client base who have long desired an improved service by a trusted vendor. As a result, we are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 - 200+ employees in the last four years with a global footprint in London, New York, Tel-Aviv, Melbourne.

Role Description: 

Take part of highly skilled and enthusiastic agile team, determined to develop new solutions that have the potential to transform the future of financial services around the globe. 

As a Backend developer you will design, implement, and own server-components and micro-services in the cloud environment. 

You will be collaborating with a global tech and product teams and interfacing with other groups around the globe. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead and be accountable for server components and micro-services written in Java-Spring. 
• Be accountable for quality, performance, scalability, and security of the different system components. 
• Gather business requirements from product team, understand the needs and how it can be implemented considering existing logic. 
• Adhere to highest development standards – including clean code methodologies, code reviews, unit tests and integration tests. 
• Research and experiment with new technologies and advocate proper adoption. 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. 
• 4+ years of experience in backend development using Java and the Spring framework. 
• Proficiency in data modelling, RDBMS, SQL, and ORMs. 
• Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and robust backend systems using microservice architecture. 
• Familiarity with Kafka or other message brokers. 
• Understanding of testing and deployment best practices, as well as CI/CD pipelines and tools. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues. 
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and working in an Agile team environment. 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team. 
• Passion for technology with the ability to research new technologies, determine best practices, and educate other developers. 
• Experience with AWS services and ecosystem is a plus. 
• Full-Stack coding experience is a plus. 
• Experience in the FinTech industry is a plus. 
   

Benefits

• Birthday off in addition to annual leave 
• Improved family-friendly policies 
• Work your way 
• Choose your tech 
• 2 duvet days a year 
• 1 volunteer day a year 
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity 
• Workation- Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year. 
• A company wins programme 

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position. This will be completely anonymous and is in no way tied to your application. If you could please take a few minutes out of your day to complete this that would be much appreciated.

Last updated on Aug 16, 2024