Artis Works leads financial innovation by empowering trading firms, brokerages, and institutions with advanced technology. Our flagship product is responsible for taking high frequency tick data from the market, and combining it with user supplied data and custom formulas to produce insights for traders. We surface high quality, low latency historical and live data across 4 continents.
See more about the product at https://artis.works
Position Overview:
We're looking for a motivated backend engineer to join our dynamic team. You'll design, build, and launch essential cloud services from the ground up, significantly impacting our products and success.
Requirements:
Experienced or interested in Rust, or proficient in JVM-based languages (especially Clojure).
Skilled in building real-time data processing and multi-threaded, latency-sensitive systems.
Familiar with stream processing (Kafka, Pulsar, Flink) and distributed systems.
Capable of building secure, scalable, and reliable systems with attention to monitoring and graceful failure.
Experienced with relational, non-relational, and time-series databases.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, is a strong advantage.
To apply send an email with a cover letter and/or CV/Resume to careers@artis.works
Narraduct is a commodities focused consultancy and hedge fund, building tools for mining and energy companies, primarily in Central Asia and S. America. Knowledge of accounting, chemistry, geology or industrial engineering is a huge bonus. We appreciate knowledge of multiple languages and curiosity about exotic paradigms. More than anything, we look for people who will fit in and help us create value. We can make roles for good fits!
We primarily use Common Lisp, with some Go, Racket and Prolog running on Linux and BSD. Some client facing stuff may feature Tcl or Clojure. We are also looking for a graphic designer or ui/ux expert who like preweb style interfaces with prouser experiences.
Note, half of compensation takes form of bonuses. As most employees are remote around the world with different regulatory environments, we can't offer traditional benefits.
Send resumes to info @ our website with the subject line of "career"
We're looking for talented individuals interested in solving some of the hardest problems in real-time databases and front-end technology. If you love building delightful developer experiences and want to work on cutting-edge tech, we want to hear from you!
Our current stack: Typescript + Clojure + AWS Aurora Postgres
* We offer client SDKs, a CLI tool, and web GUI to interact with Instant. All written in Typescript
* We have a server written in Clojure for managing websocket connections, parsing queries, running permissions, and broadcasting novelty.
* All of which sits on top AWS Aurora Postgres
Open Roles:
* Typescript Engineer - Help build the best type system for our database and improve developer experience.
* Full-Stack Engineer - Build frontend sync engines and UIs that developers use for hours.
* Backend Engineer - Solve hard database problems and build infrastructure to handle 100k+ connections.
Additional details:
* Location: We're based in San Francisco, CA!
* In-person or open to relocation only: We're a small team and we really do prefer all working together in person!
* Compensation: Sliding scale between 0.5%-2% equity and 150k - 200k base + medical/dental/vision benefits
Our vision is to be the infrastructure for all apps of the future. If this jives with you we should really talk . Send us an email: founders@instantdb.com with a bit about yourself, and a project you've worked on.
I've spent the last 18 months iterating on Phrasing, a language learning app for polyglots. It's finally reached a stable point, and we're starting to get Daily Active Users. I've been using it every day for over a month now to learn over a dozen languages, and have been blown away at my progress.
However, I've really reached the limit of what one engineer can do alone. I'm looking for someone to help me make it go brrr. Someone who would love to iterate on our in-house sync engine, make our monolithic postgres database purr, and wouldn't be scared of a little machine learning.
The product is built in Elixir on the backend, ClojureScript on the front-end. There are no experience requirements so long as you're committed, capable, and hungry.
I'm really trying to do something different with Phrasing. No investors, no hyper-scaling, no enshittification - just a relentless pursuit of mastery and a delightful product.
If any of this is speaking to you, get in touch at hackers [at] phrasing [dot] app.
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1. BI Engineer
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* Expert in SQL, especially window functions and performance tuning
* 3+ years working with BigQuery and Looker Studio
* Strong Git/GitHub skills and experience documenting data pipelines
* Comfortable with non-relational data structures
* Clear English communication required
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2. Front-End Engineer
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* Strong experience with React, Next.js, Material UI, and Node.js
* Familiarity with PostgreSQL, unit testing, and Docker
* Able to build clean, responsive UI and integrate with backend APIs
* Clear understanding of component design, performance, and user experience
* 3+ years of experience
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3. Backend Engineer - Clojure
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* Expert in Clojure and functional programming
* Familiarity with GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker
* Experience with PostgreSQL and graph databases/traversal
* Ability to translate business requirements into scalable architecture
* Prior startup experience is a plus
* Comfortable with Docker and build systems
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Culture & How We Work
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* Competitive compensation based on location
* Startup culture with zero BS meetings
* Engineers from MIT, Yahoo — tight feedback loops, high code quality
* We value ownership, autonomy, and clarity of thought
* We don’t hire task rabbits — we want self-starters who care about user impact
* Think like a builder, not just a spec executor
email: prashanth.iyer at sharecare.com