Senior Backend Engineer

About Halo:

Halo Investing is an awardwinning technology platform that disrupts how protective investment solutions are used worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago with employees worldwide were on a mission to change the world by democratizing access to investment solutions that were previously unavailable to most investors.

Named by Fast Company among Top 10 Most Innovative FinTech Companies Halo is the first independent multiissuer platform for defined outcome investing. Halo Investing gives financial intermediaries wealth managers and RIAs access to structured notes annuities and other protective investment solutions.

At Halo weve balanced growth with a strong company culture to create a uniquely motivated dynamic and proactive team where we value collaboration communication and passion!

About the Role: Sr. Backend Engineer

Halo is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in our Chicago office to help design architect and engineer our FinTech Platform. Do you want to build the backend services that will power a financial revolution Do you have the ability to scale in the face of continuous growth This might be the role for you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with other developers in the design development and maintenance of our financial software applications.
• Responsible for architecting developing testing and maintaining complex Pythonbased financial applications Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes and a variety of AWS tools and services.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to understand business requirements and design solutions that meet those needs helping align the teams efforts with Halos overall goals and objectives.
• Ensure the performance scalability and security of our applications.
• Seek out opportunities for continuous improvement of development processes to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior/mid level developers.
• Partner with tech and product peers to navigate and drive successful delivery of work.
• Implement and follow best practices for software development testing and deployment; conduct code reviews.
• Write and maintain documentation and ensure that product quality and performance SLAs are consistently met.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical experience
• 5 or more years experience architecting developing and supporting mission critical end user facing SaaS applications with experience across the stack including authentication restful API design data pipelining and health monitoring
• 5 or more years experience using Python with a strong understanding of objectoriented programming principles
• Additional experience with cloud computing (preferably AWS) Azure or GCP as well as database technologies such as PostgreSQL Redis
• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization using Docker and/or Kubernetes as well as Gitlab and GitOps based CI/CD preferred
• Strong understanding of software development best practices including testing version control and continuous integration and deployment. and working in Agile practices
• Willingness and ability to take ownership and provide direction on projects that involve various functions and levels of professionals
• Strong problemsolving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Halos Benefits and Compensation:

This is a great opportunity with a company that values and rewards its employees. Halo offers a competitive package of benefits and compensation that will make your work life both fulfilling and enjoyable.

• This is a Chicagobased hybrid role working 3 days/week in our downtown Chicago office.
• Work with a great team in an exciting work environment
• Competitive compensation package: base salary of $115000$150000 plus bonus compensation based on personal and business objectives
• Comprehensive benefits including medical dental vision insurance life & disability etc.
• Multiple voluntary benefits: identity protection pet insurance accident insurance and more!
• Flexible PTO policy
• 401k program to help build wealth for the future
• Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition
• Chicagobased employees have access to a companypaid onsite gym happy hours and adhoc outings and activities like sports teams volunteer events and more!

Halo values diversity and inclusion and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal state or local laws regulations or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or during our recruitment process please contact us at: