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# Senior Backend Product Engineer at CAIS

- **Company:** CAIS
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cais/jobs/8885663002

## Job description

## About CAIS

CAIS is the pioneer in democratizing access to and education about alternative investments for independent financial advisors, empowering them to engage and transact with leading asset managers on a massive scale through a wide variety of alternative investment products and technology solutions. CAIS provides financial advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, digital assets, and structured notes. CAIS also delivers industry-leading technology, operational efficiency, and world-class client service throughout the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade experience. CAIS serves over 2,500 wealth management firms that support more than 65,000 financial advisors who oversee approximately $8.5 trillion in end-client assets.

## About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Product Engineer to join our Capital Markets technology team in London. This is a hybrid, hands-on role: you’ll design, build and run systems across Pre-Trade, Trade and Post-Trade, covering Structured Investments, Equity IPOs, Hedging & Monetization, ETFs, and more. This is a hybrid role, with at least 2-3 days spent out of our Old Street office - N1 7LB.

We put a lot of emphasis on the “product” in product engineer. You’ll work alongside product managers and directly with the business to turn open-ended problems into working software, and the results show up in how a fast-growing company performs. AI is a big part of how we work: the team uses it throughout the development lifecycle and has already shipped several agentic features. You’ll help build the next ones.

We work in small, autonomous teams using the Kanban principles of optimizing flow and limiting WIP. The team owns its work together, from shaping the problem through to running it in production. We collaborate closely with colleagues and stakeholders in New York. Engineers own their work from shaping the problem through to running it in production. While we have access to QA expertise, we consider quality to be everyone’s responsibility, so engineers own testing too. We care about strong engineering fundamentals, especially as AI changes how we build.

You’ll mostly write Kotlin, working with Spring, Postgres, Elasticsearch and Kafka, and deploying to Kubernetes on AWS through GitHub and ArgoCD.

## Why join us

- Real ownership: you’ll shape problems with the business, not just pick up tickets
- Visible impact: your work shows up directly in how a fast-growing business performs
- Interesting domain: complex, real-world problems across the full trade lifecycle
- Engineering quality: strong fundamentals and high standards
- Modern codebase: we’ve moved off legacy, and our systems have been built in the last few years

## Skills & Experience

- Experience working as a software developer with Java or Kotlin server-side applications
- Track record of turning business problems into working software, with a clear, measurable impact
- Experience building and running mission-critical services in production, from CI/CD through to monitoring, alerting and incident response
- Strong testing habits across unit, integration and end-to-end tests, with good judgment about what to test at each level
- Strong experience with Spring (Boot, Data, Security), relational database design, REST API design, and Kafka or a similar event streaming platform
- Experience working AI-first: using AI agents to build software, with an understanding of how LLMs work and good judgement about when to trust their output
- Technical leadership within your team, including mentoring less experienced engineers and setting and sharing engineering standards
- Clear communication, including explaining technical decisions to non-engineers

## Nice to have

- Financial services experience, ideally capital markets
- Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Postgres, AWS, Terraform
- TypeScript and React, and/or motivation to try full stack development
- Experience building AI or agentic applications

This is a hybrid role, with at least 2-3 days spent out of our Old Street office - N1 7LB.

CAIS is consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work, and our culture is at the heart of our success. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can be their most authentic self and feel inspired and supported to bring their voice forward to drive community, growth, and innovation. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.  Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers.

CAIS’ compensation package includes a market competitive salary, a performance bonus, and exceptional benefits. If you are located in London, England, the base salary range for this role is £95,000 - £125,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

We use technology, including AI tools, to support parts of our recruitment process such as application screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications. These tools are used to improve efficiency and consistency, but they do not replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by people, and we are committed to fair and unbiased assessment of every candidate.

## About CAIS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CAIS is a fintech leader transforming the world of alternative investing by providing independent financial advisors and asset managers with a technology platform that simplifies access, education, and transactions for alternative investments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (fintech)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Matt Brown (Founder, Chairman & CEO) [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Alternative investments, fintech, wealth management, asset management
- **Target customers**: B2B – independent financial advisors, wealth management firms, alternative asset managers, and bank issuers
- **Mission**: “Democratize access for independent financial advisors by breaking down barriers that prevent them from connecting with experienced alternative asset managers.” [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)

## Products & Services
- **CAIS Marketplace**: A turnkey platform that provides advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies (private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, structured notes) along with digitized subscriptions, integrated reporting, and independent due diligence from Mercer. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)
- **CAIS Solutions**: Customizable SaaS technology that powers the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade lifecycle of alternative investments for larger independent wealth management firms. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)
- **CAIS IQ**: An educational platform with 175+ courses designed to help financial advisors learn about alternative investments and earn CE credits. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 62,000 advisors on the platform; $7.5 trillion in end-client assets; 2,000+ wealth management firms served. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in available sources. Partner with Mercer for independent due diligence. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)
- **Growth Signals**: Four global offices (NYC, Austin, London, Red Bank); 341 total employees (105 in product & tech); recognized on Fortune Best Workplaces lists, WealthTech100, and others. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cais) [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independent due diligence**: All funds listed on CAIS Marketplace undergo review by Mercer, a leader in institutional investment and operational due diligence. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)
- **End-to-end digitization**: Streamlines the entire transaction lifecycle with integrated custodians and reporting providers, reducing operational friction for advisors.
- **Scale and network effects**: With a large and growing advisor base, asset managers gain efficient distribution, while advisors get access to a broad set of vetted products.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to democratize access to alternative investments by expanding the platform’s product offerings, deepening educational resources (CAIS IQ), and scaling technology to serve both independent advisors and large wealth management firms. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Certified Great Place to Work (95% of employees say it’s a great place to work); recognized by Fortune for Best Workplaces in Financial Services, New York, and for Millennials. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7022235)
- **Work model**: Hybrid – employees typically work on-site 3 days a week. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cais)
- **Benefits**: Highly subsidized medical, dental, vision; 16 weeks paid parental leave; flexible PTO; 4% 401(k) match; free lunch program; monthly happy hours and team events. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers)
- **DEI**: Active initiatives through “Together @ CAIS” working group and “Women in Wealth” webinar series to increase diversity in finance and tech. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers)
- **Growth**: Emphasis on internal promotion; learning and development opportunities; mentorship; early-career internships and entry-level roles. [caisgroup.com](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers)

## Sources
1. [caisgroup.com - Careers page](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company/careers)
2. [caisgroup.com - Company page](https://www.caisgroup.com/our-company)
3. [caisgroup.com - Homepage](https://www.caisgroup.com/)
4. [builtin.com - CAIS profile](https://builtin.com/company/cais)
5. [greatplacetowork.com - CAIS certification](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7022235)

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