Hello! Thank you for your interest in Sigma Ratings.
Sigma Ratings (“Sigma”) is an MIT-incubated and venture-backed global data and
analytics firm that helps clients better manage risk that may impact credit,
credibility and reputation. Sigma’s unique products leverage deep domain
expertise to convert the world’s data into actionable insight that powers
decision-making at global financial institutions, corporates and governments.
Sigma’s core values are collaboration, curiosity, and integrity. Working in a
complex domain with a small, fully distributed team requires us to actively
work together, embrace learning, and hold ourselves accountable to each other.
We believe engineers do their best work when they have interesting problems to
solve with a smart, kind team. Our engineers value pragmatism and sharing. We
aim to use the right tools to build incrementally and iterate rapidly. We
collaborate on designs and implementations because many heads are better than
one. We share ownership, knowledge, rewards, and pain because we are a team
and teams build together.
**What You will Do**
* Partner with product and engineering to design scalable engineering solutions
* Build and maintain production systems, including services (primarily Go/Golang), databases (PostgreSQL), docker with some AWS (dev)ops work
* Build or provision new services and infrastructure for green-field projects such as public APIs along with other product development ideas
* Regularly participate in code reviews
* Weigh in on architectural decisions and participate in our RFC process
* Mentor and share knowledge with the rest of the team
**Our stack**
* Golang
* Postgres
* Neo4J
* Elastic
* Microservices Architecture on AWS
* Python (Data science on Databricks)
**Qualifications**
Not all qualified candidates will have all these requirements, so if you have
some or most of them, we’d love for you to apply, especially if you have some
nice-to-haves from below!
**Required for this role:**
* Solid communication skills in English is a MUST
* Golang experience OR ability to pick up quickly is a MUST
Other important skills:
* Approximately 5 or more years of software development including:
* design, implementation, and testing of production features
* maintenance and monitoring of production systems
* Troubleshooting production systems
* Setting up and maintaining logging and alerting of production systems
Solid working experience with: (Ideally, at least one year of professional
use)
* Strongly typed language (JVM, Go etc)
* Python
* Graph DB
Other important attributes:
Approximately 3 or more years of experience working with cross-functional
stakeholders (product, sales, ops, etc)
* Preference for rapid iteration or prototyping over extended debate
* Familiarity with build tools and automated build pipelines
* AWS experience, especially with managed services such as ECS over EC2
* Experience with Docker
**Nice to have**
* Experience developing a public facing RESTful APIs
* Experience with search engines like Elastic or Solr
* Nginx, Grafana
**What We Offer**
Competitive compensation and company stock
* Fully remote work - Standup at 10am EST
* Generous vacations
Sigma is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fair hiring
practices and to creating a welcoming environment for all team members. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, national origin, disability, age, familial status or veteran
status.
Sigma Ratings focuses on Financial Services, B2B, Business Intelligence, Risk
Management, and Fin Tech. Their company has offices in New York City. They
have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <http://www.sigmaratings.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/sigmaratings) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sigmaratings).
