Position Title: Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (remote) Yokai

Entity: KBRA Holdings, LLC

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote (Remote only in CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, MD, NJ, MA, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA)

Summary/Overview:

KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking an engaged and proactive Full stack Senior Software Engineer to work on our financial analytical system. We want someone who loves solving difficult problems, digs deeply to understand the domain in which they’re working and is able to create high quality software in a collaborative environment.

About the Team:

We believe that small, empowered teams can do amazing things. Across the engineering organization, we work hard to make the best systems for our customers using modern engineering practices. We are intentional in our investments in time and effort around creating a safe and successful workplace for our team members to succeed. We understand that software development and engineering go beyond the 1’s and 0’s and strive to root it fully into valuable outcomes for our customers.

Our engineering team is a highly collaborative unit that is responsible for creating the web app and backend API for our financial analytics platform. Working with our product team, the team builds toward the vision of delivering a high quality and efficient user interface for our analytics customers. We are growing in this space and looking to best our competitors through improved technology and user experience.

About the Job:

This role involves joining an existing team that is building toward the product vision. This team operates collaboratively and there is an expectation to get involved in all aspects of design, delivery, and support of the Systems. The role is focused around working with the entire team to add new, and enhance existing, product features. We also expect an eye for technical quality that continues to improve as the product matures.

This role will require an emphasis on collaboration with our existing teams to learn our domain and its unique challenges, while providing value to the customer. It also requires collaboration with our other KBRA engineering, design, product, and platform teams to develop, build, run, and support the system architecture.

About You:

You will be successful in this role if you:

Able to work in a collaborative fashion.
Have experience collaborating with non-technical and technical partners and can communicate accordingly. Understanding what you are being asked to build and manage the flow of the work in a transparent way as a part of delivering.
Has a sense of ownership and craftsmanship around the code base.
Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies.

Must have skills:

Hands-on development experience developing and publishing python packages, maintaining them, building Python CLI tools.
Hands-on experience writing unit, integration, and end to end acceptance tests in Python (preferably using unittest, pytest, playwright or selenium and behave frameworks).
Developing REST APIs using Python frameworks (preferably Flask) – Creating API endpoints, Deploying APIs in a containerized environment, working with other developers in the team to integrate those APIs with the User Interface being built.
Building data models for efficient data storage and retrieval for relational and non-relational databases (SQL Server, MongoDB and Snowflake are preferable)
Building efficient data pipelines to acquire data from different sources, transform them per user requirements and loading them in required format for end users.
Running services in a containerized docker environment (Docker swarm, Kubernetes etc.)
Working with services from one of the major Cloud providers – Preferably AWS Services such as S3, Secrets Manager, SQS (Simple Queue Service), EKS etc.
Experience developing distributed systems, event listeners and parallel computing frameworks such as Dask in Python.

Nice to have skills:

Writing CI/CD YAML files for integrating and deploy code using GitLab.
Monitoring application services using DataDog and Opsgenie
You have experience with

React/NextJS front-end frameworks.
Typescript
Jest/React/Cypress and Playwright testing libraries.
CSS / Sass / Design System
Kubernetes
Terraform
User Authentication

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 to $160,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

Competitive benefits and paid time off
Paid family and disability leave
401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
Educational and professional development financial assistance
Employee referral bonus program
Cell phone reimbursement

About Us:

KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the U.S., the EU and the UK, and is designated to provide structured finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.

More Info:

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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