What We're Looking For
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🚀 At Catapult, we're looking for exceptional engineers to join us as we re-imagine the entire trade lifecycle in the digital asset financial markets, starting with the OTC markets.
Achieving this requires leveraging the latest in LLMs/ML, finance/mathematics, and requires an engineer with the deep skills to both build incredible traditional systems as well as quickly learn and contribute in the use of cutting edge technologies.
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Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership over projects, including solving novel problems that require research and deep thinking.
- Be able to learn quickly and contribute to discussion and development across a number of different areas, including in UI/UX development, LLMs/ML, databases, and system design.
- Build out battle-ready and systems at speed, with a real emphasis on pro-active testing.
- As we scale, grow into a role as a senior member and culture builder.
Requirements
- Be able to think about and solve deep problems in a multi-stage manner. This means developing an understanding what you need to know/learn in order to solve the problem and then developing the architecture of a solution.
- 4+ years of experience as a world-class individual contributor.
- At least two of the following
- 2+ years of experience with core ****front-end technologies, including: React and TypeScript.
- 2+ years of experience working on backend systems, ideally with experience bootstrapping these systems from scratch.
- some experience working with LLMs or otherwise working on ML related projects.
- Experience working with SQL and no-SQL databases**,** e.g. MongoDB, Firebase, MySQL, Postgres.
Helpful
- An interest in finance. Personal projects in finance or related work experience is especially helpful, but a basic understanding and interest to learn more may suffice.
Nice to Haves
- Exceptional academics
- Experience working on open-source projects or contributing to Stack Exchange
- Experience and interest in the future of LLMs/ML
- Work experience in a financial institution, e.g. an investment bank, hedge-fund, market maker, etc.