Software Engineer - London, United Kingdom - GradBay

GradBay
GradBay
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Company Description Founded in 2012 this Venture Capital company has emerged as Europe's leading multi-stage VC investor in Technology focused start-ups. Uniquely pan-European in both location and focus, we have been successful in forming a diverse investment team with deepoperational and thesis-based expertise, across a number of industries, as well as building crucial senior-level access to political and regulatory circles across Europe.


They have have recently backed a number of Europe's most ambitious technology entrepreneurs, backing companies such as accuRx, Eigen, Glovo, Isar Aerospace, Pitch, sennder, TerraQuantum, and Yapily.

In 2021 also pioneered the first Tech SPAC in Europe, listedin Frankfurt.

Earlier notable investments include Revolut, Blockchain, Oscar and Spotify. The team is passionate about investing in strong European companies and helping them develop a global footprint. This is a VC for the world's tech entrepreneurs.


Job Description Believing that we can supercharge our investment team with strong technological underpinnings, we have made a large investment into our technology platform. Our data driven approach using a variety of proprietary software tools gives us an edge to source,screen, secure and support the best founders and technology companies. Now, as we scale further, we are looking for a creative, motivated Software Engineer to join our technology team in London or Berlin.

As a core member of our technology team, you will:

  • Help architect and build our back and front-end infrastructures and platform that powers our investing and portfolio management efforts.
  • Help create and tune statistical models based on feedback generated directly from the investment team through our CRM.
  • Actively support sourcing, integrating, and cleaning structured and unstructured data and coming up with theses on how existing and new data sources can refine our models.
  • Generate and evaluate statistics on the quality and effectiveness of our deal sourcing effort.
  • Further developing and maintaining the backend of our internal portfolio analysis system.
  • This role is mainly backend but can include frontend tasks in React.
  • Challenges include efficient data capture, database design, as well as integrating with a variety of APIs and tools used by the team.
  • Design and refine technology driven workflows, which enable our team to be more efficient with their time, for example through extending our internal browser extension.
  • Support the investment process with adhoc requirements, for example advice on due diligence of developer tools or crunching larger data sets of potential investment targets.

Who Fits The Bill:


  • You have an interest in Venture Capital and the venture ecosystem and you are keen to understand the commercial processes and dynamics of our industry to provide innovative solutions to the underlying workflow, data and science challenges.
  • You have 12 years of relevant experience with Python and software/data engineering fundamentals.
  • You have cloud experience (AWS) and knowledge of SQL/noSQL.
  • Experience with React is a plus but not required.
  • You have a hacker mindset. You understand the business impact of your work and you scope the products and processes accordingly.
  • You may be a Growth Hacker or Data Scientist with software engineering experience, or a Computer Science graduate with a passion for building products we will consider all backgrounds and experiences.
  • You are a creative and a natural problemsolver.
  • Often you will be asked to come up with an engineering solution from scratch based on a business requirement.
  • You are a versatile developer willing and able to effectively combine a variety of technologies, cloud services and lowcode tools to add value quickly.
  • We prefer using an API or SaaS product over writing custom code ourselves wherever possible, to focus our resources only on the most valueadd problems at hand.
  • You are a strong communicator, happy fielding adhoc requests from the team and integrating these with our strategic technology roadmap, prioritizing them based on our wider vision.
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