Software Engineer with experience in Financial Calculations and Data Science

Are you a software engineer with experience in financial calculations and data science?

While this role is primarily aimed at mid-to-senior-level professionals. We also encourage enthusiastic junior developers with relevant work experience to apply.

In Dreamplan we are on a mission to build a financial advisory platform that integrates with various data sources and delivers a financial prognosis over time, but also allows for optimization and adjustment of the users’ savings and economic decisions.

We are looking for a mathematical-minded developer, who can join us on this data science and calculation-focused software journey an emphasis on software development. We use various programming languages (Python, TypeScript and C#) and various tool sets with a focus on financial optimization, ML algorithms including neural networks, as well as REST APIs for building the numerical backend software. You’ll be joining a small startup on a mission. 

We want to help ensure ordinary people make the most of their hard-earned salaries. We want to understand our customers and their pain regarding financial planning, and we are passionate about helping them. 

Working at Dreamplan

• Dreamplan was founded by Simon & Stine, who have many years of experience in successfully managing customer oriented innovative software development in the financial sector.
• Philip is our Lead Data Scientist and holds a financial engineering degree from DTU. Now he works out of Lisbon in Portugal. He has +10 years experience with financial modeling and financial advisory systems.
• We have a team of very smart front- and backend developers, financial advisors, designers, communication and marketing specialists and researchers who have developed our product
• We don’t just say that we are agile. We continuously make small changes and test them.
• We received our financial advisory licenses from the Danish FSA in September 2022.
• We embrace remote work, but you can also work from our office in Copenhagen.
• There are social events both company-wide and in the calculation and data science team, and we try to meet in person when possible.
• We speak English in the team and that is our business language.

What we are looking for

• You have a few years or more of experience as a software engineer
• You have experience with financial calculations
• You have solid understanding of mathematics
• You probably have a background in Mathematical Modelling and Computation, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Actuarial Mathematics or similar
• You get energy from building and improving the algorithms and functionality which feed into our customer-facing web experience
• You can collaborate in cross-domain teams (e.g. financial advisors, frontend and business)
• Work autonomously and take ownership on specific features
• Experience with C# or another OOP language and at least one of the following: Python and TypeScript

Why should I apply?

• You’ll be joining a small FinTech startup with an open and collaborative team, where you’ll be heard, and can make a difference
• You’ll be entering the company at an early stage, and therefore have the ability to bootstrap your carrier
• Work with complex problems and build things from the beginning, taking them all the way to production
• Work with modern and emerging technologies in a young codebase
• Obtain or improve a broad set of technical and soft skills
• There are plenty of possibilities for feedback and to develop your skills
• Work when you work best. We have flexible hours
• You will be working in a small team with loads of independence and with colleagues who want to make a positive difference in society by optimizing and improving savings for everyone

Bonus: 

• Experience with CICD and DevOps
• An understanding of good UX and the ability to emphasize with our customers and use your knowledge to participate in product development
• An interest in and understanding of personal finance
• Data science experience working with different models

Hiring Process: 

• Apply by submitting your CV and possibly GitHub and LinkedIn profiles
• We expect to conduct 3 interviews prior to hiring; 20 min intro, 45-1h technical interview and 1 hour culture fit
• The technical interview will consist of you showing and explaining some of your code and experiences, and we will provide a deeper insight into the job, day to day work and tech stack