About CAIS

CAIS is the leading alternative investment platform for financial advisors who seek improved access to and education about alternative investment funds and products.

CAIS provides financial advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies including, hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate and structured notes, allowing them to capitalize on opportunities and/or withstand ever-changing markets. Additionally, CAIS provides an industry-leading learning system, CAIS IQ, that helps advisors learn faster, remember longer and improve client outcomes.

The Product & Technology team’s mission is to catapult the firm forward. We are a team of productive individuals with diverse qualifications, experienced in building excellent products using cutting-edge tech. To achieve our ambitious goals, we leverage functional programming, automation, reproducibility, testing, visibility and rapid delivery.

You Will:

• Simplify and refactor existing Java code.
• Develop new systems using Elixir and Elm with full-stack functional tests and modern deployment practices.
• Be involved in the full product lifecycle: from product inception, to deployment and monitoring in production.

What You Bring:

• You love to code and are aligned with the ideas of software craftsmanship. You have a proven ability to solve open-ended problems in an elegant, scalable manner. You are smart and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, great communication, and a teamwork ethic.

We’re searching for strong developers with 1+ years of experience and a background in:

• Functional programming
• Back-end technologies (Java, SQL, Elixir) and Front-end technologies (Javascript, Elm)
• Running applications in production
• Support tooling (docker, ansible, scripts, AWS)
• Test Driven Development

Bonus Points:

• You are comfortable with the POSIX programming environment and tools such as: sh, make, docker, linux, emacs or vim, ssh, awk, sed, grep, elixir, java, javascript, elm, ansible, git, curl, mysql, etc.
• You appreciate the old-school UNIX philosophy and the synergy of small programs, working well together. You have a few `awk` tricks up your sleeve!