Opto Investments

Opto connects financial advisors to the tools and resources they need to access to alternative investments.

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Employer Provided Salary: 125,000-225,000 Annually

Company Overview

We are on a mission to ensure that the financial system is routing money to the best ideas while helping people build and protect their long-term financial health. Our platform empowers financial advisors to learn about, build personalized strategies around, and invest in (previously inaccessible) private investments to help them grow their businesses and improve the outcomes of their clients.

The market for private investments is expected to grow by $2 trillion in the next decade, but remains largely inaccessible to the majority of non-institutional investors. Our platform provides exclusive educational content, personalized guidance, bespoke investment options, and a streamlined investment process to help make these investments more accessible than ever before.

The Role

Software Engineers at Opto Investments are tasked with the challenge of turning complex business problems into elegant and pragmatic engineering solutions. We are context-driven, customer- and stakeholder-empathetic builders of tools and systems. We are end-to-end owners of engineering problems and solutions who constantly challenge one another to evolve as builders and collaborators. Oh, and we have fun along the way, because otherwise, what's the point?

The Investment Analytics team partners with investment decision makers to distill complex financial data into creative workflows for analyzing private investments. Our mission requires a diverse range of expertise including frontend, backend, data, quantitative modeling, and financial analysis, so we are a multi-faceted team that is always looking to experiment and bring clarity to the previously opaque world of private investments.

Our tech stack consists of a series of React-based Next.js Typescript applications hosted in Vercel. Behind that a collection of Aurora-backed Python and Java REST API services are hosted as containerized applications in AWS. We make use of AWS Lambda for asynchronous tasks and we rely on Snowflake for data ingestion and warehousing. Our service deployments are completely automated and execute multiple times daily. Our tech stack continues to evolve, driven by our shared principles of optimizing for modularity, scalability, and team-level service ownership.

Expectations

Be accountable for the delivery of project work and coordination with teammates and stakeholders toward the delivery of projects on mutually agreed upon timelines
Participate actively in all phases of product development across specification, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
Foster a culture of collaboration by actively engaging in discussions, documentation, and code review
Participate actively in engineering recruiting (interviewing, problem specification, role ownership, etc)
Raise your hand when you need help - don’t hesitate to reach out to stakeholders (product, teammates, managers, etc) to unblock your progress

Qualifications

4-year technical degree (or equivalent work experience)
2+ years software development experience
Experience building, scaling, and maintaining a data warehouse and data pipelines
Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Mage, DBT, etc.)
Experience interfacing with financial data providers (Refinitiv, Burgiss, MSCI, etc.)
Experience with domain and data modeling for investment vehicles
Experience with the software development lifecycle (CI/CD, Git, etc)
Experience with cloud computing architectures and tooling - particularly AWS
Demonstrated background / interest in investment management
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to execute in a fast-paced startup environment
Excellent communication skills and grace under pressure

Compensation and Benefits

Opto has a high bar for talent, and we are committed to building the best teams possible. Candidates are never subjected to discrimination based on race, citizenship, religion, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, sensory, mental, or physical disability, or any other characteristic.

The successful candidate for this role can expect a generous compensation and benefits package. The cash salary range for this role is $125,000-$225,000 dependent on skills, experience and expected contribution.

All full time employees at Opto enjoy:

Significant equity
Health, dental, and vision
Unlimited PTO
Retirement savings plan (401k)
Learning, Fitness & WFH stipends
Paid Holidays, Including closing the week in between December 25th and January 1st

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Sadhvi Sharma

Product Designer

BUILDING IN DIVERSITY

Setting explicit diversity and equity goals

“Diversity is important for innovation and creativity,” said Product Designer Sadhvi Sharma. “Feeling safe to share different perspectives brings a wider range of ideas, allowing companies to create better products and competitive advantages.” Diversity makes a company stronger, and Opto has made a concrete commitment to access that strength. The company has built diversity goals directly into its OKRs, targets gender diversity in its hiring process and conducts offsite events regularly to draw in diverse talent — and once they’re on board, leaders strive to cultivate an equitable workplace.

Working with a diverse team doesn’t just help me challenge my creativity as a product designer — most importantly, it helps me grow as a person.

Manny Uwakwe

Investment Analyst

FIT TO WORK REMOTE

Flexibility that produces personal and professional results

Investment Analyst Manny Uwakwe has experienced zero major challenges in his transition from in-office to remote work, due to Opto’s results-based environment. “As long as the work product is delivered on time and above expectations, there are no issues,” he said. Even when he needed to suddenly move out of New York City, he was met with a wave of trust and support from his manager and team. The increased flexibility and autonomy of Opto’s remote work has allowed Uwakwe to focus more on his physical fitness — since transitioning to remote work, he’s lost at least 15 pounds through exercise.

The company’s results-driven approach allows me to focus on my work without the pressure of needing to be physically present, which has led to improvements in my overall well-being.

Erika Scoby

Product Manager

SHARED EXPERIENCE

Product’s well of knowledge runs wide and deep

Erika Scoby’s product team benefits from having a level of experience that is not just extensive, but also varied. “Some of us have worked in investment firms, investment technology, adjacent fintech startups or some combination of those,” she said. Team members combine their wealth of experience — along with that of their internal stakeholders and other tech teams — to build new knowledge and foster creativity, thus leading to better product and more robust testing and feedback. “We are all experienced, but all learning at the same time,” said Scoby.

We are learning from each other and applying best practices from our experience at a variety of companies to not only build great products, but also build a great product team.