Back-End Engineer - Go

Back-End Engineer - Go

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Compensation: $120-$200K

Hybrid

About Finster AI

We’re a Series A stage firm, redefining the future of finance with our AI-native research and task automation platform, backed by leading, global venture investors. Founded by a team of experts from Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and J.P. Morgan, Finster AI provides cutting-edge solutions to help finance professionals unlock unique insights with greater efficiency and accuracy.

We’re building a well-rounded team with multi-disciplinary expertise across product, AI, finance, UI/UX, and engineering to help in our goal of building AI agents that can read, analyse and integrate disparate sources of financial and market data. We’re building for the distinct demands of institutional investors, with accuracy, reliability and privacy at the core of our product.

The Role

As a Senior BE Engineer at Finster you will;

• Work in the development and maintenance of microservices, primarily in Go.
• Refactoring and removing functionalities from existing productive monolith.
• Build APIs and integrate using gRPC and Kafka, with a focus on scalable communication between services.
• Work on Kafka message-driven systems to ensure smooth data streams between microservices.
• Contribute to the development of new services that could use gRPC or Kafka for sync and async communication.
• Collaborate with the data team to integrate and manage MongoDB, Postgres and Vector DBs for data storage and retrieval.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Collaborate closely with AI, Frontend and Product teams to integrate new features into the microservices ecosystem.
• Help with the implementation of industry standards and good practices

Who You Are

• Have 5+ years of experience working as a Backend Engineer in production environments.
• Have 3+ years of experience working with OO Compiled languages (ideally Golang) in production environments.
• A solid level of understanding of async, multithreading and concurrency/parallelism.
• Have a solid understanding of gRPC and building code for microservices-based architectures.
• Have familiarity with building and maintaining REST APIs.
• Are proficient in using non-relational databases (ideally MongoDB).
• Have experience with Kafka or similar message brokers.
• Have had exposure to CI/CD environments, utilising containers with Docker and orchestrating microservices with tools like Kubernetes.
• Have a good understanding of software engineering best practices (standardised practices, version control, testing, code review, etc.)

You Will Thrive Here if You

• Worked on Kafka message-driven systems to ensure smooth data streams between microservices.
• Experience with Python (to understand and help with the migration from the monolith).
• Exposure to non-relational databases (ideally MongoDB).
• Familiarity with Redis for caching and queueing mechanisms.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and event-driven systems.
• Have worked in projects making big refactor to improve system performance, API latency, improving data layer and DB queries, etc.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including deployments and cloud-native services.
• Familiarity with user authentication and authorization flows.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.
• Previous experience working in fast-paced startups or dynamic environments.

Why Finster

• Impact: As an early-stage company, you’ll be part of the team shaping the foundation of one of the most exciting AI platforms in financial services.
• Exposure: You’ll work directly with senior technical leadership on critical projects.
• Growth: Be part of a company scaling rapidly after Series A, with opportunities to grow the scope and responsibility of your role.
• Exceptional team: We are a world class team that combines expertise from AI labs (Google DeepMind, Meta AI) with leading Financial institutions (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Rothschild & Co, Aviva Investors, Visible Alpha, Revolut).
• Culture: We deeply value collaboration, intellectual curiosity, disagreement and high performance.

Benefits at Finster AI

We’re a growing, cross-functional team that values supporting each other's development. As part of the team, you can expect:

• 25 days PTO, excluding bank holidays.
• Flexible working - Our flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Finster AI employees have the flexibility to work from home 2/3 days per week.
• Generous healthcare and dental package.

Next steps

At Finster AI we are committed to building an inclusive environment that attracts and retains the best talent from around the globe. We welcome applicants from different cultural and educational backgrounds and value curiosity, courage and determination to implement new ideas. If you are a self-starter that wants to have an impact on how Finster grows and develops, we want to hear from you. Eagerness to learn, attitude, and enthusiasm are more important than ticking all the boxes. Even if not all desired requirements are met, but you're very excited about the role, get in touch.

Please communicate any reasonable accommodations you may need for your interview.

If you believe you’re a great candidate for Finster AI but don’t see a relevant open role, we encourage you to still get in touch. Send your resume and tell us why you want to join us to careers@finster.ai