Our Company

Ellevest is a well-funded startup in NYC, poised to be the leading digital investment platform for women. We started the company to solve a problem — for all the attention paid to the gender pay gap, there’s also a gender investing gap that can cost women even more over the course of their lives. That means building a technology-based investing service around women’s longer lifespans, different salary curves, and research-based behavioral differences. Led by Sallie Krawcheck, former head of Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch, and with investors including Khosla Ventures, Morningstar, and Venus Williams, we’re growing and always looking for great people to join our diverse team.

About This Position

As a senior backend engineer with Ellevest, you will work to design, build, and support many of the core systems powering Ellevest’s financial software, from cash flow and transaction libraries to our financial computation engine, as well as working on improving existing and building new product features. We follow agile methodologies and on a day-to-day basis leverage Ruby and Rails, MySQL, and Redis, among others. Our systems run on a modern AWS stack supported by exciting new technologies, and the entire backend team is encouraged to contribute to systems and infrastructure support and development in addition to working on the core product.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core financial operations systems
• Help plan, technically direct, and implement new features across the product
• Work with the team to design and implement important infrastructure projects using devops tools
• Improve site scalability and performance
• Provide support and guidance for junior team members

Qualifications

• At least 5 years professional Ruby experience
• Good command of object oriented programming best practices
• Experience supporting and scaling consumer-facing web applications
• Good command of SQL and knowledge about proper database design and management

Devops experience a plus (Ansible, Terraform, and AWS experience a big plus!)