Back End Developer - Chicago, United States - Valor Equity Partners

Description

Job Title:
Senior Associate,Backend Engineer


Department :
Labs


Work Location:
Chicago


Reports To:
Head of Labs


Who We Are:
Valor Equity Partners is a different kind of private investment firm.

We invest in technology and technology-enabled companies that innovate and disrupt existing industries — from biosciences to transportation to food to health and wellness.

Our mission is to invest in and work side by side with companies that make the world a better place.

These companies include SpaceX, Anduril, GoPuff, HackerOne, Cloud9, and others. We've had the honor of serving some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and companies.
Our values are core to all we do. These values are excellence, humility, integrity, and responsibility.

Valor means that we:
Strive for excellence in everything we do;
Maintain our humility and mutual respect no matter what circumstances we encounter;
Insist upon the highest level of integrity in our interactions and in the logic of our investment process; and
Demonstrate responsibility and dedication to all of our constituents.

About the Team:
Labs is an internal team at Valor that builds software to support the Firm's investment process.

It comprises software, data, and machine learning engineers as well as data scientists with diverse backgrounds and levels of experience.

The team's mission is to build cutting edge software applications and data models that generate proprietary investment insights and provide the investment team with tools that augment the investment decision making process.

About the Role:
Create, design, and deploy ETL and ELT flows for consuming from disparate sources of 3rd party data
Build tooling to monitor data pipelines and perform troubleshooting and debugging to identify and resolve data quality and performance issues
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand their data requirements and translate them into technical specifications
Collaborate with software and data engineers to help build a highly valuable software product
Collaborate with ML Engineers to deploy, monitor, and maintain ML models in production environments
Lead the integration of ML workflows with CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent and seamless model versioning, testing, and rollout
You will help shape the future of software engineering at Valor by bringing your ideas on improving and automating what we do and how we do it
We're excited about candidates that have...
5+ years of software development experience, with significant contributions that you can talk to
Exceptional coding skills in Python
Additional skills in RESTFUL API design, especially Flask, Django, or FastAPI are good to have
Experience with Scala and Spark or PySpark
Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
SQL skills and working knowledge of multiple database types
Experience in ML Ops
Experience in DevOps for CI/CD, IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
Modern ETL tools (Apache Beam, Kafka, Spark or similar)
Passion for software engineering while being mission-driven, hard-working, humble, intellectually curious, and most importantly, great team players
Bias for execution and delivery. You know that what matters is delivering software that works every time
Ability to assist in system design and the generation of key technical assumptions while encouraging solutions that respect existing infrastructure
Willingness to be resourceful, flexible, and adaptable; no task is too big or too small
Our Tech Stack

Frontend:
React with Hooks, Material UI

Backend:
Python, Fast API


Tooling:
Google Cloud Platform

Data:
PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Elastic Search, Prefect, Kafka, Scala, Spark, dbt

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