Senior Software Engineer

About Ctrl Alt: Combining groundbreaking technology and expert financial engineering, Ctrl Alt is a B2B infrastructure solution provider that makes structuring and investing in alternative asset classes efficient, cost-effective, and accessible.

Since launching in 2022, Ctrl Alt has established itself as a leader and expert in the space with over $325m of assets tokenized.

With offices in the UK, Ireland and the UAE, the Ctrl Alt team is composed of financial and product experts including alumni from Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, UBS and Revolut. The business is backed by leading VCs including MiddleGame Ventures and Molten.

The Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help us build the future of tokenization at Ctrl Alt. As a full-stack engineer you’ll be working within small feature teams to deliver solutions to real problems that make it into the hands of users within days, not months. You will work closely with colleagues in product to understand design and use your initiative as well as skill to implement technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:
Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible and scalable solutions
Build upon our existing app to create products and features that help our users understand their investments, manage their portfolios and participate in voting rights of their assets
Build APIs for our partners to access and place orders our platform
Take a loosely defined problem through to a valid, technically sound, thoroughly documented, tested, and implemented software solution
Collaborate with team members and other engineers across the company
Advocate best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team and the company
Mentor engineers on your team supporting them in their growth

Essential Requirements:
~5+ years experience as a Software Engineer
~ Proficiency working with TypeScript/JavaScript backend frameworks (Express, NestJS or similar)
~ Comfortable writing backend code to be performant and efficient
~ Experience building RESTful application interfaces and designing APIs
~ Experience working as a part of a multi-person development team that utilizes automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and peer reviews in an Agile Environment


Nice to haves:
Strong engineering principles
Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
Experience in security-first technical architecture
Experience in React and NextJS

Benefits:
Generous stock options, with equity plans that let you share in the company’s growth
Private health insurance - we offer a premium private health insurance scheme (UK/IRE only)
We offer 24 days annual leave plus public holidays, with flexibility for additional time off
IT and office equipment to support your work, including a MacBook, displays and accessories
Salary sacrifice scheme and financial tools to help you with your personal finances, covering childcare, groceries, tech, pensions, bikes and subscriptions (UK only)
A state of the art central office in Belfast or Dundalk
An annual learning and personal development budget for training, exams, certifications, qualifications or anything else which helps you progress at work and your career
The opportunity to work in a high-growth startup where your contribution matters and shapes an industry
Exposure to collaborative working and direct knowledge sharing from experts across financial services, blockchain and fintech

Interview Process:
Stage 1: Initial interview
Stage 2: Technical Interview
Stage 3: Final interview with the CTO