Software Engineer (Services)

We’re building the future of private financial markets

Traditionally a space only for the wealthy and well-connected, we believe in a future where private markets are more accessible to investors and fundraisers. By leveling the playing field we hope to create a more equitable economy, where inspiring companies are connected to inspired investors, whoever and wherever they are.

Leveraging our trusted brand, global networks and incredible team, we’re building a technology-enabled ecosystem that is as diverse and dynamic as our investor network. As we progress on this ambitious journey, we’re looking for energetic and creative people to support and leave their mark on our platform.

Before Applying

About Alta

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‍Alta, formerly known as Fundnel, is Southeast Asia’s largest digital marketplace for alternative investments. Alta gives investors direct access to invest and trade in a wide range of curated alternative assets, from direct investment into early to late-stage private companies, PE/VC funds, asset-backed securities of luxury assets, real estate and more.

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As a licensed integrated marketplace, Alta brings the trading and distribution of securities, fund management, and payments solutions under one roof. Through its blockchain-powered exchange, Alta is also able to support tokenization, digital custody, and trading of alternative assets.

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Today, while more investors are looking to increase their allocation to alternative assets, the high costs of investing and illiquidity of private markets can often give many investors pause. Alta makes it easier and more efficient than ever for investors to trade tokenized alternative assets at smaller, fractionalized blocks, thereby enhancing liquidity in the private markets, and bringing alternative assets to all.

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Since 2016, Alta has completed over 1,000 transactions valued in excess of US$600 million and has created access for investors to invest in over US$22 billion worth of mandated opportunities globally.

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Alta is headquartered in Singapore and operates offices globally.

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This role is open to candidates in either Indonesia (Jakarta) or India (Mumbai).

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As a Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to leverage and continue to develop your full-stack software skills in a modern and rapidly evolving development environment, while also being deeply integrated into a broader team that’s on the leading edge of financial innovation. API/service-driven architectures, serverless infrastructure, blockchain, data pipelines, front-end frameworks and no-code platforms are all key elements of our technological ecosystem that you will be exposed to.

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As with all engineers in our teams, your job doesn’t stop at writing code. You’ll be a key technical stakeholder in our feature planning process, helping to map complex business requirements to technical solutions and offering your ideas and opinions. We build quickly but carefully – the security and privacy of our investors and partners is paramount, so you’ll be keeping these front-of-mind throughout all of the work that you do.

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We’re a supportive, social, and entrepreneurial team of former investment bankers, technologists and strategists. Clear, honest communication is key to everything we do.

Job purpose

Ecosystem Services is a back-end focused team that builds and maintains the common services layer into which our platforms, partner integrations, third-party services, internal tooling, data pipelines and exchange all connect. Members of this team have a deep, holistic view of org-wide business processes, and must balance the detailed requirements of each department with abstract “big picture” thinking that ensures the team builds the most flexible common technological infrastructure to serve a diverse set of stakeholders, each rapidly evolving strategies.

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Our services philosophy is focused on security and stability, while staying nimble enough to modify, divide or add new services as business needs evolve. We make significant use of containerized serverless infrastructure and automation-driven CI/CD pipelines. On a service-by-service basis we are believers in a “best tool for the job” approach, preferring to place an emphasis on consistent API contracts rather than the languages and frameworks that power them.

Roles and responsibilities

Working on one or more of our technical teams as a key contributor to our code base
Participating in code reviews within and outside of your team to help continuously improve the quality of our code
Having the opportunity to own your own deliverables, working with business stakeholders and peers on your team from planning through to release
Contributing to the continued development of our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
In consultation with our Data team, evolve the data schemas that underpin our business processes
Adding to our automated testing framework
Taking part in regular security testing
Keeping up to date with the latest in tooling and industry best practice, ensuring that we’re constantly discussing, evaluating and implementing the best
Expressing your ideas, opinions and feedback on our tech stack, tooling and culture to ensure we’re always improving as a technology team and as a company

You’ll be a great fit for us if you

2-3 years of software engineering experience
Strong experience in at least one object-oriented and/or functional programming language. We’re language-agnostic in our hiring, but have JavaScript/Node, Python, GoLang, Rails and others in our ecosystem stack
Experience with writing unit tests
Good experience with source control systems like Github or Bitbucket, and how they work within a team
Good code review habits, knowing what to watch out for in your peers code, and commenting frequently and constructively
Good knowledge of relational databases. Non-relational experience is an asset.
Familiarity with using RESTful APIs, as well as common authentication mechanisms involved

Bonus attributes

Beyond the technology, we also hope you’ve got some interest in:

Financial services, particularly the investment space
Digitised and decentralized finance (DeFi), and all the new financial products and possibilities that come with these innovations (cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, etc.)
An appreciation for experimentation and designing systems/processes that accommodate business and technical agility
Food! We talk about it a lot :)

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At Fundnel, we want rule benders, questioners, believers, and determined independents who think fearlessly outside of the box; we want you. We’re always on the lookout for great people to join our team.