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# Sr. Backend Engineer at dv01

- **Company:** dv01
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dv01/jobs/8487919002

## Job description

dv01 is lifting the curtain on the largest financial market in the world: structured finance. The $16+ trillion market is the backbone of everyday activities that empower financial freedom, from consolidating credit card debt and refinancing student loans, to buying a home and starting a small business.

dv01’s data analytics platform brings unparalleled transparency into investment performance and risk for lenders and Wall Street investors in structured products. As a data-first company, we wrangle critical loan data and build modern analytical tools that enable strategic decision-making for responsible lending.  In a nutshell, we're helping prevent a repeat of the 2008 global financial crisis by offering the data and tools required to make smarter data-driven decisions resulting in a safer world for all of us.

More than 400 of the largest financial institutions use dv01 for our coverage of over 75 million loans spanning mortgages, personal loans, auto, buy-now-pay-later programs, small business, and student loans. dv01 continues to expand coverage of new markets, adding loans monthly, and developing new technologies for the structured products universe.

## YOU WILL:

- Bring transparency to the financial markets: You will bring transparency to consumer lending, mortgages, and other asset classes, by enabling our customers at banks, hedge funds, and credit originators via our SaaS offering including our Cashflows API product to quickly extract insights from large private and public datasets.
- Develop using a modern, open source stack: You will develop on top of a software stack that includes Kotlin + Spring Boot with some legacy apps built on Scala + Play, and interact with data by building both REST API and GraphQL endpoints. We continuously evaluate and adopt new open source technologies to solve customer needs, so the skills you develop here will serve you well beyond dv01.
- Interact with a diverse team: You will collaborate closely with other teams at dv01 to create great products. This includes working closely with the product team to understand the customer story, design team to understand the motivation behind the UI/UX, the data engineering team to understand the most efficient way to query that data, and finally front-end engineers to fully build out the product.
- Gain knowledge of the financial industry: You will have an exclusive view into the system that enables Americans to afford houses, cars, and college. You will learn about the participants, terminology, and mathematics behind this sector of the financial markets.

## YOU ARE:

- A well-rounded engineer: You have a deep appreciation for engineering fundamentals holding over 6 years of experience. You understand the importance of writing tests, designing systems for long-term maintainability, and coming up with and evaluating different engineering approaches.
- Experienced developing complex products and architecture. You have extensive experience architecting data-driven products with complex workflows. You are strong in SQL and able to incorporate a deep understanding of the database and backend to build systems that provide a great customer experience through scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Curious to expand your financial knowledge: You are excited to learn more about the intricacies of the financial system. You are adept at learning on the job and unafraid to dive into technical finance books.

## NICE TO HAVES:

- Familiarity with financial concepts, specifically structured products
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Google BigQuery, and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with data analytics tools like Spark, R, or Pandas
- Familiarity with React, Redux, Node.js
- Familiarity with Excel Pivot Tables

In good faith our salary range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000 but are not tied to it. The final offer amount will be at the company’s sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience, expertise, and other business considerations.

Our community is fueled by diverse people who welcome differing points of view and the opportunity to learn from each other. Our team is passionate about building a product people love and a culture where everyone can innovate and thrive.

## BENEFITS & PERKS:

- Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
- A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
- Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
- Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
- Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
- Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
- Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

dv01 is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

## About dv01

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: dv01 is a data intelligence platform providing integrated loan-level consumer credit data and analytics to drive transparency in structured finance markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Fitch Solutions, a division of Fitch Group)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Perry Rahbar

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech), Data & Analytics, Structured Finance
- **Target customers**: B2B — Investment Banks, Banks, Issuers, Originators, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Insurance Companies, Credit Unions
- **Mission statement**: Unlocking the value of data by building the most comprehensive structured products data library and analytical tools to transform workflows, bringing unparalleled transparency and intelligence to the structured products market.

## Products & Services
- **Data Management**: Comprehensive loan data ingestion, validation, and standardization across asset classes (auto, mortgage, student loan, solar, point-of-sale, small business, credit card, consumer unsecured).
- **Deal Reporting & Portfolio Management**: Automated performance reporting for securitizations, credit facilities, master trusts, and whole loan portfolios.
- **Cashflow Engine**: Loan-level and deal-level cashflow analysis with custom scenarios, prepayment assumptions, and stress testing.
- **Deal Structuring**: Tool for modeling, tranche structuring, and waterfall analysis.
- **Market Data & Benchmarks**: Industry-leading insights with benchmark datasets, issuer performance data, housing affordability, ESG metrics, and more.
- **Tape Cracker**: Data wrangling tool powered by machine learning for assessing and standardizing loans for purchase.
- **Strat Tables & Visualization**: Customizable stratification tables, pivot tables, and cohort groupings for granular analysis.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Fitch Group in September 2022 for an undisclosed amount)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of approximately **$13 million**; **$39.5 million** in total funding prior to acquisition
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: OCA Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners (led Series B rounds); Parent company: **Fitch Solutions** (part of Fitch Group)
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Pragmic in 2021; acquired by Fitch Group in 2022 as a subsidiary of FitchSolutions; platform processes data on over **370 million loans** and **$8 trillion** in original balance; serves **600+ leading issuers and investors**.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market Position**: One of the most comprehensive loan-level data libraries across lending markets, covering 10+ asset classes.
- **Data Standardization**: Rigorous validation and standardization processes ensure accuracy and consistency across datasets.
- **Integration with Fitch**: Backed by Fitch Group’s global reach and credit expertise, providing credibility and access to institutional clients.
- **End-to-End Platform**: Single platform for data ingestion, structuring, reporting, analytics, and cashflow modeling — reducing silos.
- **Mission-Driven**: Explicitly focused on preventing a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis by promoting transparency and data reliability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Data Coverage**: Continuously adding new asset classes (solar, point-of-sale, BNPL, etc.).
- **Deepening Analytics**: Building embedded analytics and AI/ML tools (e.g., Tape Cracker, ESG data enrichment).
- **Private Credit Growth**: Tailoring solutions for the rapidly expanding asset-backed private credit market.
- **Integration with Fitch**: Leveraging Fitch Solutions’ distribution and research capabilities to scale.
- **Remote-First Operations**: Committed to a 100% remote-first work model with optional office space in New York.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: dv01 is a 100% remote-first company, offering flexibility to work from home, the office (New York), or a hybrid model.
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Directly contributing to market transparency and preventing another financial crisis.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Nearly 100% paid health insurance, unlimited PTO, health and wellness stipend, learning and development allowance, 401(k) plan via Guideline, above-market salary.
- **Career Growth**: Entrepreneur panel discussions, lunch & learns, prototype days, and a learning and development allowance.
- **Culture**: Described as fostering a safe environment where employees are “challenged, encouraged, and rewarded.” Peer recognition program, virtual coffees/hangouts, and annual company offsite.
- **Engineering Focus**: Active hiring for roles in MLOps, Data Analytics Engineering, Backend Engineering, Quantitative Engineering, and Reverse Engineering — indicating a strong engineering-driven culture.

## Sources
1. [dv01 Official Website](https://www.dv01.co/)
2. [dv01 About Us](https://www.dv01.co/company/about-us/)
3. [dv01 Careers Page](https://www.dv01.co/company/careers/)
4. [dv01 Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dv01)
5. [dv01 LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dv01-investortech-for-lending-market-transparency)

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