Senior Backend Software Engineer 

Haystacks.ai | New York City 

About us: 

Haystacks.ai is turning antiquated "back of the napkin" style real estate investing into data driven strategy by leveraging proprietary machine learning techniques to produce a shortlist of buy and sell signals for real estate investment strategies. 

Haystacks seed round was financed with participation from leading venture capital firms in the US. The founding team includes 2 serial entrepreneurs with a track record of multiple exits and several billion dollars in capital raised to date. 

About the role: 

What excites us about Haystacks is the application of a wide spectrum of human behavioral data points, previously never applied in the world of real estate, and using them to produce a buy/sell decision on properties. This presents an opportunity for researching, organizing, and unifying these data points into a data lake in order to develop best-in-class machine learning algorithms on it. 

Haystacks.ai is looking to hire a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the core engineering team. You’ll work closely with the founding team to architect and build the Haystacks engine. 

Responsibilities: 

• Architect and contribute to the core services that power the Haystacks platform.
• Develop products and applications that enable investment professionals and portfolio managers to efficiently extract insights from alternative data. 
• Own the entire development lifecycle including feature development with the product team, architecture, development, testing, releasing, and maintaining critical software products.
• Practice and teach agile methodologies to ensure process improvements for your team. 
• Uphold high quality standards through technical guidance, leadership, and mentoring. 

Qualifications 

• At least 4+ years of relevant engineering experience. 
• Proficiency in Python, Java/Scala/Clojure and SQL. 
• Advanced knowledge of service-oriented architecture and design of cloud-native systems. 
• Experience with REST web services and frameworks such as FastAPI, Starlette, and Django.
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks. 
• Experience using containers and cloud infrastructure covering technologies like AWS ECS, Fargate, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes. 
• Hands-on experience with relational SQL and no-sql database technologies like DynamoDB, AWS Opensearch (ElasticSearch), AWS RDS Aurora, AWS Redshift.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Logstash, Kibana, Cloudwatch) and benchmarking
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab CI or equivalent.

Nice to Haves: 

• Real Estate or Finance experience 
• Interest or exposure to ML Ops

Benefits: 

• Base salary range $150k - $200k
• Opportunity to earn equity
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Pet-friendly office! 

Haystacks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.