Engineering Manager - Back End
About Yieldstreet
Yieldstreet is building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. Yieldstreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Fine Art, Real Estate, Crypto, Legal & Private Business Credit. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Miami, Boston, Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.
Why Yieldstreet?
Join a team of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages who are on a mission to make alternative investments more accessible. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B. We get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites!
What’s in it for you:
Competitive compensation packages including equity
Health, dental & vision coverage with FSA/HSA options
Unlimited PTO
401k Match
Learning and Development stipend
Wellness credit
Paid lunch once a week
Commuter benefit
Life insurance
Sabbatical
About the Role
We’re working to change the way wealth is created.
Yieldstreet is growing very fast and looking for an engineering leader that will be our champion in this mission. This is a crucial role in Yieldstreet’s engineering organization. Together with a super-talented, motivated and distributed complex of engineers, product managers and designers, you will take a hands-on role to build our large and growing, modern and highly distributed platform. You will also manage brilliant engineers, hire and expand our engineering team, and play a big part in defining our engineering process and culture.
What you'll do:
- Develop, mentor, and empower our back end engineers in New York
- Improve the way we build our products - contribute to engineering-wide process improvements across Yieldstreet.
- Help us maintain the rapid growth pace for our team by participating in the hiring process, interviewing and being an advocate for Yieldstreet
- Do some hands-on (Java) work on our platform
What you’ll need:
- Experience managing software engineers
- Strong desire to help people grow - your proudest career accomplishments are helping others
- 5+ years of overall experience, mostly in back end technologies. Strong Java (8+) knowledge is a must
- Strong foundation in OOP, REST, performance, architecture, and security
- Experience working in a team environment, collaborating with Design, Product and Engineering to deliver consumer-facing products
Bonus points for:
- Experience with event-sourced microservice development (reactive programming)
- Experience working with messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ), and streaming data (Apache Spark, AWS Kinesis)
- Previous entrepreneurial venture or start-up experience