Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead (API & Integrations)

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead - API & Integrations

Overview

Chronograph was founded to bring next-generation technology to private capital markets. Through our suite of cloud-based analytics and data management solutions, we help many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated venture capital, private equity, and credit funds understand their investment performance in unprecedented detail, with over $20 trillion of AUM monitored via our solution suite. 

At Chronograph, we get to go “behind the scenes” and work directly with investors who are driving some of the most impactful changes across high growth start-ups, global infrastructure and renewable energy, growth equity, and all other private capital strategies. The firm is backed by The Carlyle Group, Nasdaq Inc., and Summit Partners, and has seen continuous rapid growth since its founding in 2016.

The Opportunity

Bring your expertise to a highly collaborative, creative, and innovative team with a market-leading technology product suite. We are seeking a highly motivated, Senior Software Engineer and/or Technical Lead focused on backend software development to join our API & Integrations team. You will work across a multitude of backend services to develop solutions to complex business problems, and maintain third-party integrations, including external services and ELT pipelines to incorporate data from external systems into our solution suite. This role will also contribute to both our internal & client-facing APIs, as well as our data warehousing (Snowflake) capabilities for our clients.

To be successful, in addition to your technical skills, we expect strong communication skills, the ability to work cross-functionally, and a context-driven approach to product development. Additionally this role will have 1-2 direct reports. Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and enjoys developing sophisticated software solutions across multiple backend services. We value people who take pride in their work and show an aptitude for learning quickly. You'll be working with a team of committed and talented engineers with an engineering culture centered on continuous learning, collaborative knowledge sharing, and both personal growth and team development.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a driven, detail-oriented top performer to become directly engaged with several of the world’s most sophisticated private equity investors and produce immediate impact within a globally-focused financial technology firm.

Even if you do not meet all criteria, we would still encourage you to apply! Chronograph offers an entrepreneurial environment where you will be able to proactively identify opportunities to develop and strengthen our Technology function. 

As a Software Engineer focused on APIs and third-party integrations at Chronograph, you will:

• Work with multiple teams across the organization to develop sophisticated solutions to complex business problems in the Private Equity space 
• Understand, design, and implement third-party services and data sets into our solution suite
• Identify opportunities for improving data migration practices
• Implement fast, resilient, and extensible integrations with both internal and external APIs
• Enhance and extend external facing Chronograph APIs for client use, including implementation of best practices and change management
• Collaborate closely with other engineers and across the organization to identify bottlenecks in our processes to ensure efficient processing

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• Five (5) or more years of professional backend leaning full stack experience
• Prior experience building and maintaining API integrations and ELT processes, and working across multiple codebases in different languages
• A passion for maintainable, readable, stable, and well organized code
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Knowledge of Postgres and Snowflake or Azure data warehouse development and best practices
• Knowledge of at least two commonly used backend software language (ideally Typescript and Ruby)
• Experience with common web API frameworks like GraphQL, and Node.js/Express
• An understanding of commonly used cloud technologies for data migration, ideally within AWS
• Strong communication skills, an ability to distill complex concepts, and understand the core business problems you’re trying to solve
• Ability to work both individually and collaboratively to deliver results in a fast-paced startup environment
• Positive attitude, sense of humor and creativity
• Deep curiosity and motivation to continue to develop as a programmer and technologist

Why Join Chronograph?

We value creativity, open communication, cutting edge technology, striving for excellence in all things – and having fun along the way. We want you to be happy here for the long-term.

We offer:

• Flexible work arrangements (including remote / in person / hybrid)
• Competitive salary 
• 401(k)
• Unlimited and flexible vacation
• Generous health benefits
• Team week events in HQ (Brooklyn, NY) three times annually for all employees
• Fully-paid parental leave
• ...and more! 

Chronograph is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organization and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!

Salary Range (dependent on experience)

$170,000 - $190,000 USD