Software Engineering Team Lead

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

‍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.

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.

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.

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.

Alta is headquartered in Singapore and operates offices globally.

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Job purpose

As a Lead Software Engineer at Alta, you will have the opportunity to leverage your extensive 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. Blockchain, DeFi, API/service-driven architectures, serverless infrastructure, 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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The Exchange team skill sets range from Web2, covering the API-driven platform and central databases, to Web3, integrating with blockchains, smart wallets and partner DeFi service providers to provide secure and efficient transactions for end investors. Being at the forefront of digitized finance, the Exchange team takes on a boundary-pushing yet pragmatic approach to their tech strategy. Like all teams across the Group, the Exchange team is steadfast in their efforts to build securely and robustly, ensuring our clients and partners can safely participate in rapidly evolving digitally-enabled capital markets.

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As a lead engineer, both hands-on development and technical leadership are big parts of the job. 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. You’ll have extensive opportunities to mentor more junior members of the team, and will contribute significantly to ensuring we continue to hire the best engineering talent to the team. 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.

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Roles and responsibilities

Collaborate with the product, business, and other stakeholders and participate in scoping exercises to design viable, scalable solutions to meet business objectives
Own your own deliverables, working with stakeholders and peers on your team from planning through to release
Working on one or more of our technical teams as a key contributor to our code base, as a technical advisor and a thought leader
Participating in code reviews within and outside of your team to help continuously improve the quality of our code
Timely delivery of high quality, maintainable, and operationally excellent code.
Mentoring junior team members about engineering tools and best practices, and ensure their growth and development
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

4-7 years of software engineering experience
At least 2 years of experience as a blockchain developer with experience working on Ethereum.
Deep understanding of blockchain fundamentals (smart contracts, web3, DAOs).
Strong experience in multiple object-oriented and/or functional programming language. We’re language-agnostic in our hiring, but have JavaScript/Node, GoLang, Rails and others in our ecosystem stack
A strong sense of what it takes to build a scalable, secure and cloud-native application architecture
Able to choose the right coding pattern for the job, including around building easily testable code (if not via pure TDD, at least leveraging those principles)
Good experience with source control systems like Github or Bitbucket, and how they work within a team
Strong code review habits, leading by example on being proactive and constructive with comments and conversations among your peers
Excellent knowledge data modeling in both relational and non-relational databases
Good familiarity with service-oriented architectures and API-driven system design

Bonus attributes

Financial services, particularly the investment space
Digitized 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 :)

As a close-knit, social team we generally prefer to work together in person at one of our offices. That said, we provide a flexible working environment that is adaptable to periods of working from home.

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Thanks for reading. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

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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.