Software Engineer Senior

About ActiveViam

If you believe that data analytics can contribute to making Financial Services a more accountable and risk-aware business in an ever-increasing volatile environment, ActiveViam is the right place for you.

Founded by a group of industry experts, ActiveViam understands the data analytics challenges faced by financial institutions across trading desks, risk, and compliance. That is why we pioneered the use of high performance analytics in finance, helping the largest investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds make better decisions, explain results with confidence, and simulate the impact of their decisions. Unlike most BI players, we are not generalists. Our mission is to deliver train of thought analysis on terabytes of data in the most cost-effective way so our customers can explain what happened with confidence and model the scenarios that will optimize their business. We are a pure player specializing in risk data analytics for one of the fastest-moving and most regulated industries with a presence in the world’s leading financial market places – London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris.

Our 150 employees take pride in being experts in developing and supporting a purpose-built analytics technology that has been recognized as “FRTB Product of the Year” by Risk and the “Award for Excellence for Regtech, Big Data and Analytics” by Regulation Asia.

Choose to be different. Join ActiveViam and make a difference in data analytics for the financial services industry.

About Your team

Join our R&D department located in Paris and enter an environment where you will create new algorithms, concepts, and products in the big data landscape.
We are a team of 35 back end, front end and full stack engineers, focused on code quality and innovation. Your contributions will speed up the queries thanks to new algorithms, add new types of computations to help our customers build complex indicators, reduce the memory usage, simplify our public APIs, etc.

The Role

In Activeviam, the role of a Software Engineer is to create, design and develop applications, systems    and also to test, improve and maintain any software that is already in place.

Software Engineers are people who love to write code and tackle complex problems. They start as individual contributors, and aspire to become highly qualified engineers who :

• master the technical aspects of one or more ActiveViam products,
• share their knowledge with other R&D engineers,
• develop a global vision of the ecosystem the products evolve in.

Key Duties

• Module expert

• Know parts of the codebase very well

• Care about knowledge transmission and product design

• Helps and collaborates

• Has excellent conceptual and analytical skills

• Possess creativity and out-of-the-box thinking

• Has passion for innovation paired with technical expertise

Your profile

• Graduated from a top-10 engineering school

• Proven programming skills with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, Rust with object-oriented design

• Good analytical and communication skills

Ideally, you also have:

• 2+ year of professional software development experience
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability

What we offer

• A friendly and collaborative team in an awesome office near the Louvre in Paris
• A competitive salary
• Up to two days of remote working per week
• Large company events such as summer garden party, company-wide offsite seminars
• 2 days paid leave to volunteer via our CSR Platform, Vendredi

*At ActiveViam, we know that our evolution and successes have been driven by our culture and values.*We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of differences such as age, disability, ethnic origin, sex, identity, gender expression, religion or sexual orientation. By joining ActiveViam you will work in a socially responsible company, offering everyone a chance to be listened to, trained, encouraged in their career and offering attractive remuneration based on equality. Diversity has naturally been part of our values since our inception and we are committed to an inclusive approach, which is why ActiveViam has set up a diversity committee, composed of employees, HR managers and our CEO.