Clojure Developer

The Difference Engine; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Difference Engine is seeking a skilled Clojure developer to join our fintech team, with offices in London and New York. You will work on building APIs, relational data integrations, and cloud-enabled services in a product-driven environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience with Clojure, familiarity with functional programming, and strong communication for hybrid/remote collaboration.

Qualifications

• STEM-based bachelor's degree preferred.
• Candidates with higher level degrees welcomed.
• Minimum 5 years' commercial experience with Clojure; other FP languages considered.
• Comfortable building APIs.
• Comfortable working with relational databases.
• Cloud experience (ideally AWS).
• Product-driven mindset to engineering.
• Strong communication skills and initiative for hybrid/remote work.

Skills

Clojure

Functional programming

APIs

Relational databases

Communication

Education

B.S. in STEM

MS/PhD welcomed

Tools

AWS

Job description

We've been retained to work exclusively in support of our client as they look to build out their current functional programming team, with the addition of a new Clojure developer.

We're looking for an intellectually curious clojure developer to join this muliti-award winning fintech with offices in both London and New York.

Essential skills for the role

• STEM based bachelors degree preferred
• Candidates with higher level degrees of education welcomed
• Minimum 5 years' commercial experience software engineering with Clojure - other functional programming languages considered (for example Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Lisp) but Clojure is the primary development tool in house
• Comfortable building APIs
• Comfortable working with relational databases
• Cloud experience (ideally AWS but other cloud technologies also seriously considered)
• Product-driven mindset to engineering
• Given the hybrid / remote nature of the role, strong communication skills alongside the ability to work on initiative

Bonus for the role (though not mandatory)

• Experience of working on DSLs
• Commercial experience working with both Clojure and Haskell
• Include enhancement and further development of our client's award winning fintech platform
• Development of the current technical architecture and design to drive the product forward
• Take an active part in the delivery, implementation and support of planned cloud based projects