Software Engineer, Data & Market Connectivity (Backend)

FULL-TIME | NYC (IN-PERSON)About Moment

Moment builds modern capital markets infrastructure for the wealth management space, starting with fixed income. Founded in 2022 by former fixed income quants at leading prop shops, Moment has quickly established itself as the leading fixed income infrastructure provider for global fintechs, traditional brokerages, and RIAs.

Fixed income is the largest asset class in the world, and the market is evolving rapidly. In the past three years, electronic fixed income trading volume has nearly doubled — and in the past 14 months, retail fixed income trading volume has increased by more than 1500%. Despite this rapid growth, the wealth management space has been confined to legacy technology that doesn’t meet their needs anymore. That’s where Moment comes in — in just a matter of weeks, Moment allows customers to easily offer an end-to-end, modern fixed income solution through a simple set of APIs across data, execution, and portfolio management.

Most startups start off serving small businesses, and scale up as they convince larger enterprises to take a bet. Moment’s version of “small businesses” have been firms representing millions of retail investors — and we’re just getting started. We're growing incredibly fast and are backed by world-class investors. In May 2023, we raised a $17M Series A led by a16z with participation from amazing investors including Venrock, Neo, Contrary, and Henry Kravis.

The Role

We are looking for talented software engineers to join our team as early engineers. You will be working alongside some of the brightest people in the industry to build the next generation of well-designed, robust, and scalable systems. Our team has a strong engineering culture and believes in delivering beautiful and functional experiences to our customers. The ideal candidate will have significant experience working in a fast-paced, engineering-first organization. Our current tech stack is Go, Python, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Datadog, and AWS.

We look for a passion for revolutionizing the way retail investors access the capital markets today. While interest in finance is always appreciated, we will teach you the finance domain knowledge you need during your onboarding. Together, we will redefine and transform the finance industry.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core Data & Market Connectivity Team services that directly power our best-in-class data product and trading systems.
• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of robust distributed services, striking the appropriate balance between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost.
• Provide valuable feedback and insight on the design and implementation of new features, products, or infrastructure components.
• Contribute to the evolution of our tech stack as we scale our product.
• Assist in building a world-class team by participating in hiring and mentoring new team members.
• Desire and ability to design, plan, and implement projects from day one.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-4+ years of experience in backend engineering.
• Proven ability to architect or build 0-1 services in a large-scale production environment.
• Hands-on experience in building distributed systems in a cloud environment using AWS.
• Experience with Go, C++, Python or similiar programming languages.
• Experience with compiled languages (strongly preferring Golang) for 2+ years.
• Working knowledge of Postgres or other SQL database ORMs.
• Impact-oriented mindset, driving projects to success within Moment and beyond.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards for self and others when working with production systems.
• Open communication skills, including asking questions, assuming good intentions, and prioritizing transparency.
• Rigorous and empathetic approach, thriving in a collaborative and high-performance environment.
• Prior experience working at startups or small product-oriented teams.
• Experience with distributed systems in an AWS-focused cloud architecture for 1+ years.
• Experience with Kafka or other stream-based messaging queues for 1+ years.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) for 1+ years, or strong willingness to learn.
• A fintech background is preferred, but not required.

Compensation & Benefits

For this role, the salary range is $150,000-$200,000. Actual compensation will vary based on skills, experience, and interview performance. 

In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we provide every employee with:

• Grow into the leader you aspire to be. At a fast-growing company in an expanding industry, you can enjoy unmatched career growth.
• Education is encouraged with our company-wide professional development programs and course reimbursements.
• Comprehensive wellness package, providing top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement.
• Competitive compensation, top-notch gym stipends, and generous equity grants.
• Flexible PTO policy that people actually use — on average, people take three weeks off per year.
• 401k with employer match (4%) to help you save for your future.
• Paid lunches in the office, every day through Uber Eats and a free UberOne membership ($25/meal). 
• Weekly team bonding stipend to get to know your colleagues outside of work ($40/wk).