React, Django, AWS

Everyday, millions of retail investors trade financial markets to create and conserve wealth. However, despite an industry-wide shift toward automation, an intimidating barrier still exists for most individual investors. This is where Surmount AI, a rapidly growing fintech startup backed by Techstars, steps in to bridge the gap.

We are consolidating the future of finance by providing an accessible, low-barrier automated investment platform. Our focus is on ensuring that everyone, regardless of their account size or technical efficiency, can partake in the automated investment wave.

We are expanding our team and are on the lookout for industrious builders who are passionate about our mission and can adapt to the agile environment of a fast-evolving startup.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer with experience using React and Django who is excited to tackle challenging problems with us! Responsibilities extend from managing core software development tasks to building rapid feature prototypes, helping with product ideation, and building out our AWS-based infrastructure.

About the role

• Full-time, remote role
• Flexible hours centered around US eastern time
• Our team is highly driven and close-knit, you'll work directly with our CEO and entire team
• Wearing multiple hats is a given, you'll always be learning and expanding scope
• We move fast, and sometimes this means staying online late or working weekends

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain user-facing features
• Build quick prototypes based on wireframes and discussions
• Analyze application performance issues that span multiple interdependent systems
• Contribute technical input to the planning and design process of new features
• Take ownership and be the point-person for core systems
• Develop and implement platform improvements
• Write clean, safe, and efficient code

What makes you a good fit

• 3+ year experience using Python for web development
• Strong commitment to React JS
• Demonstrated experience developing for and deploying complex systems on AWS architecture including Lambda, EC2, S3, and Elastic Load Balancer
• Demonstrated understanding of the concepts and fundamentals behind modern day REST APIs
• Passion and excitement for what we're building!
• Qualified for remote work and legal to work in the USA
• Occasional travel (as needed)

Bonus points

• Experience and interest in capital markets
• Experience using Docker and containers for development and deployment of web apps
• Experience using and solid understanding of UI design principles
• 2+ years experience using Django

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay: $140,000 - $180,000
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Stock options
• Remote work