Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Senior TypeScript Engineer with strong Kubernetes experience to join our Engineering team at Valstro. Our goal is to build scalable, costefficient, and maintainable services using modern software development practices.

Valstro is an ambitious FinTech partnership on a mission to redefine trading technology for global, multiasset class institutional clients. Whether you see us as a startup or a baby enterprise, one thing is clear: we are a peoplefirst company. Our success is built on the talent, collaboration, and motivation of our team.

Were not just building software—were engineering highly modular, welltested, welldocumented, and easily discoverable applications. This approach isn’t just good practice; it’s our notsosecret sauce for scaling both our product and our business.

At Valstro, were here to shake up an industry that’s long overdue for techdriven disruption. As we expand our capabilities and reach, we aim to push the boundaries of what’s possible, challenging outdated industry norms at every turn. Our clients deserve better—and were here to make it happen. If that vision excites you, keep reading.

What will you be doing?

• Enhancingexpanding existing applications and services, as well as contributing to the development of new ones.
• Participating in architecture discussions, technology selection, and design to deliver highquality software.
• Building, testing, deploying, and maintaining stable, resilient and performant software.
• Collaborating across teams to: refine processes, improve tools, and deliver impactful solutions.
• Continuously improving your skills, staying up to date with the latest technologies, and actively sharing knowledge and best practices with the team.

• Requirements

  The ideal candidate has:

  • Extensive experience building enterpriselevel software with TypeScript.
  • Handson expertise in Kubernetes and containerized microservices architectures.
  • A deep understanding of cloudnative development, CICD pipelines, and distributed systems.
  • Passion for delivering highquality, performant software in a collaborative team environment.

  • What you need to bring

    A good portion of the following:

    • Realworld experience developing production systems in TypeScript, including the use of popular frameworks and libraries.
    • Expertise in CICD pipelines, with handson experience using GitHub ActionsWorkflows and other industrystandard tools.
    • Experience building multithreadedconcurrent applications.
    • Experience working in a Linux environment (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu etc. any flavor is ok)
    • Handson experience with containerized environments, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.
    • Practical use of SQL databases.
    • Experience working with messaging queues (Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, EventHub etc.)
    • Bonus: Experience with Nx for monorepo management.
    • Bonus: Experience developing systems for Equity Trading in Capital Markets.

    • Benefits

      What is the Environment like at Valstro?

      Valstro was founded during the COVID19 pandemic and has operated on a remotefirst basis ever since. However, as the world returns to normal, we also recognize that certain types of knowledge work benefit immensely from inperson collaboration. To support this, we established our physical office in Midtown NYC three years ago, providing a dedicated space for teams to connect and collaborate.

      We are a distributed team, with staff in the UK, the NYC area, and across the US. While remote work remains a core part of our culture, NYCbased employees are expected to take advantage of the Midtown office space and collaborate in person on a regular basis.

      Regardless of location, Valstro is a fantastic place to work. Valstro offers an excellent benefits package, including toptier health insurance, 401(k) plans, and highly competitive compensation. Our leadership team brings a wealth of experience and deep industry knowledge, and despite being a young company, we believe we have carefully dialed in our productmarket fit. As we move forward in executing our vision for clients, the Engineering team is looking for clientobsessed, deliveryfocused high performers (with a healthy dose of humility)—future FinTech leaders ready to make an impact.

      If this excites you, we’d love to chat!