Clade is a platform for private investments. Our ambition is to become the premier digital syndication (distribution) platform for direct institutional grade private loans and other alternative investments such as private equity and venture capital investments.

These investments are currently only accessible to some wealthy individuals and institutional investors. At Clade we use technology and our network to make alternative investments accessible to a larger audience.

We’re a small, nimble and fun team based in New York City, about to grow, and looking for more amazing individuals to join us. Remote or in our office.

Up for the challenge to build something big?

• Work as part of an engineering team in an agile environment, collaborating with engineers and designers from concept to delivery
• Work with the product owner to translate business requirements into technical requirements and API specifications
• Develop automated testing plans and infrastructure
• Execute on a software architecture and development plan to bring products to life
• Propose novel solutions to design and technical challenges
• Develop all software according to coding standards and processes, which you also help define
• Perform review of other engineers’ code

What we look for

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional-level competency in English
• A proven track record in building and maintaining complex distributed applications
• Strong experience with relational databases, document or key-value stores and domain-driven design
• Experience with cloud infrastructure providers and continuous delivery
• Can write performant, fault tolerant and secure server code
• Can show strong understanding at an architectural level of large systems in which you played a key role
• Have shipped software over multiple releases as a technical lead in a strong team
• Familiarity with modern standards like OAuth, JWT, websockets, and service-oriented architecture
• Strong collaborator, transparent about progress on tasks
• Seeks feedback early and often and works effectively with a team
• Can deliver on engineering estimates

Requirements

• 5+ years professional software development experience
• Minimum 4 years production experience with modern JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of React and Node.js
• Minimum 3 years experience building and maintaining back end web services in a production context, in a cloud-based environment (e.g. Heroku, AWS)
• Minimum 2 years experience working with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production
• Minimum 2 years experience designing, building and maintaining APIs in a production environment
• Prior experience with GraphQL

Nice to have

• Proficiency with a back-end JS framework (e.g. Express, Koa, Hapi) and ORM (e.g. Sequelize, TypeORM)
• Experience in building web applications with Apollo Client and Apollo Server
• Experience with Gatsby and single page web applications
• Experience in working with UI component libraries and toolkits such as Material UI, Theme UI, Styled System, Rebass, etc.
• Experience in testing JS applications with Jest, Cypress, and/or CucumberJS
• Experience in building and shipping React Native applications
• Native iOS or Android development experience
• Prior experience in startups as a software engineer
• Evidence of open source contributions