Senior Backend Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Valstro
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
We are looking for a Senior TypeScript Engineer with strong Kubernetes experience to join our Engineering team at Valstro. Our goal is to build scalable, cost-efficient, and maintainable services using modern software development practices.
Valstro is an ambitious FinTech partnership on a mission to redefine trading technology for global, multi-asset class institutional clients. Whether you see us as a startup or a "baby enterprise," one thing is clear: we are a people-first company. Our success is built on the talent, collaboration, and motivation of our team.
We're not just building software-we're engineering highly modular, well-tested, well-documented, and easily discoverable applications. This approach isn't just good practice; it's our not-so-secret sauce for scaling both our product and our business.
At Valstro, we're here to shake up an industry that's long overdue for tech-driven disruption. As we expand our capabilities and reach, we aim to push the boundaries of what's possible, challenging outdated industry norms at every turn. Our clients deserve better-and we're here to make it happen. If that vision excites you, keep reading.
What will you be doing?
Requirements
The ideal candidate has:
What you need to bring
A good portion of the following:
Benefits
What is the Environment like at Valstro?
Valstro was founded during the COVID-19 pandemic and has operated on a remote-first basis ever since. However, as the world returns to normal, we also recognize that certain types of knowledge work benefit immensely from in-person collaboration. To support this, we established our physical office in Midtown NYC three years ago, providing a dedicated space for teams to connect and collaborate.
We are a distributed team, with staff in the UK, the NYC area, and across the US. While remote work remains a core part of our culture, NYC-based employees are expected to take advantage of the Midtown office space and collaborate in person on a regular basis.
Regardless of location, Valstro is a fantastic place to work. Valstro offers an excellent benefits package, including top-tier health insurance, 401(k) plans, and highly competitive compensation. Our leadership team brings a wealth of experience and deep industry knowledge, and despite being a young company, we believe we have carefully dialed in our product-market fit. As we move forward in executing our vision for clients, the Engineering team is looking for client-obsessed, delivery-focused high performers (with a healthy dose of humility)-future FinTech leaders ready to make an impact.
If this excites you, we'd love to chat!
Valstro is an ambitious FinTech partnership on a mission to redefine trading technology for global, multi-asset class institutional clients. Whether you see us as a startup or a "baby enterprise," one thing is clear: we are a people-first company. Our success is built on the talent, collaboration, and motivation of our team.
We're not just building software-we're engineering highly modular, well-tested, well-documented, and easily discoverable applications. This approach isn't just good practice; it's our not-so-secret sauce for scaling both our product and our business.
At Valstro, we're here to shake up an industry that's long overdue for tech-driven disruption. As we expand our capabilities and reach, we aim to push the boundaries of what's possible, challenging outdated industry norms at every turn. Our clients deserve better-and we're here to make it happen. If that vision excites you, keep reading.
What will you be doing?
- Enhancing/expanding existing applications and services, as well as contributing to the development of new ones.
- Participating in architecture discussions, technology selection, and design to deliver high-quality software.
- Building, testing, deploying, and maintaining stable, resilient and performant software.
- Collaborating across teams to: refine processes, improve tools, and deliver impactful solutions.
- Continuously improving your skills, staying up to date with the latest technologies, and actively sharing knowledge and best practices with the team.
Requirements
The ideal candidate has:
- Extensive experience building enterprise-level software with TypeScript.
- Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and containerized microservices architectures.
- A deep understanding of cloud-native development, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems.
- Passion for delivering high-quality, performant software in a collaborative team environment.
What you need to bring
A good portion of the following:
- Real-world experience developing production systems in TypeScript, including the use of popular frameworks and libraries.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience using GitHub Actions/Workflows and other industry-standard tools.
- Experience building multi-threaded/concurrent applications.
- Experience working in a Linux environment (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu etc. - any flavor is ok)
- Hands-on experience with containerized environments, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.
- Practical use of SQL databases.
- Experience working with messaging queues (Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, EventHub etc.)
- Bonus: Experience with Nx for monorepo management.
- Bonus: Experience developing systems for Equity Trading in Capital Markets.
Benefits
What is the Environment like at Valstro?
Valstro was founded during the COVID-19 pandemic and has operated on a remote-first basis ever since. However, as the world returns to normal, we also recognize that certain types of knowledge work benefit immensely from in-person collaboration. To support this, we established our physical office in Midtown NYC three years ago, providing a dedicated space for teams to connect and collaborate.
We are a distributed team, with staff in the UK, the NYC area, and across the US. While remote work remains a core part of our culture, NYC-based employees are expected to take advantage of the Midtown office space and collaborate in person on a regular basis.
Regardless of location, Valstro is a fantastic place to work. Valstro offers an excellent benefits package, including top-tier health insurance, 401(k) plans, and highly competitive compensation. Our leadership team brings a wealth of experience and deep industry knowledge, and despite being a young company, we believe we have carefully dialed in our product-market fit. As we move forward in executing our vision for clients, the Engineering team is looking for client-obsessed, delivery-focused high performers (with a healthy dose of humility)-future FinTech leaders ready to make an impact.
If this excites you, we'd love to chat!