Job Description
# **Who We Are:**
[Valor Equity Partners](https://www.valorep.com/) 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](https://www.valorep.com/portfolio). 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
* You will have autonomy to 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…
* 3+ 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 modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
* SQL skills and working knowledge of multiple database types
* 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
