Software Engineer
FT Partners is an investment banking firm focused exclusively on financial technology. It provides strategic and financial advisory services, including M&A, capital raising, IPO advisory, valuations, and restructuring, to FinTech companies, founders, CEOs, boards, investors, and financial institutions.
About FT Partners
Financial Technology Partners, also known as FT Partners, is a global investment banking firm focused exclusively on the FinTech sector. The firm provides strategic advisory services such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, fairness opinions, and anti-raid advisory, as well as financial advisory services including private capital raising, private equity, restructuring and LBOs, IPO advisory, and valuations. FT Partners also operates a FinTech equity research and strategic insights platform, publishing market reports, transaction analysis, and research for institutional investors and industry executives. Its clients include early-stage startups, high-growth private companies, public companies, financial institutions, investors, CEOs, and boards of directors across the financial technology ecosystem.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and improve FT Base, a mission-critical application supporting data, project lifecycles, AI agents, and CRM functionality. You will develop stable features, refactor systems, review prototypes, and help create scalable, maintainable software using Python, Django, TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL.
Requirements
- Two years as a software engineer in a web application environment, or two years as a software engineer with reputable boot camp certification, or a four-year Computer Science degree with projects or work experience
- Knowledge of Python, TypeScript, APIs, Git, and web application system design concepts
- Strong AI prompt-driven development abilities
- Ability to explain and verify AI-produced code line by line
- Experience taking applications beyond the prototype stage
- AWS or cloud infrastructure experience is a plus
- Django or Django REST Framework experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Understand the context and business requirements of system functional areas
- Build new features
- Improve, refactor, clean up, and delete features
- Recommend project progression strategies
- Review applications prototyped outside the engineering department
- Steer, rebuild, or secure applications
- Write test coverage and documentation
