About us

RavenPack is the leading big data analytics provider for financial services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of unstructured content. RavenPack’s products allow clients to enhance returns, reduce risk and increase efficiency by systematically incorporating the effects of public information in their models or workflows. Our clients include the most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers in the world!

We are looking for an experienced developer with an interest or background in Common Lisp to join RavenPack’s Analytics team. We are a group of engineers and professionals that thrives when working together. We’d love for you to be a part of our company and join us in Marbella.

You will be reporting to the Analytics Manager and you will interact with peers across various lines of business and technical teams to support projects that will span text classification, big data analysis and product development among others.

The ability to communicate effectively in English, both in writing and verbally is a must. Knowledge of Spanish is not a business requirement.

Responsibilities

• As a senior software developer, you will be focused on the development and maintenance of applications that, among other things, extract data from incoming news and deliver user and machine-friendly analytics to customers.

• You will be assigned various projects with the objective of improving your skills and knowledge of our systems. More responsibility will be granted as knowledge and performance improve.

• Researching advanced techniques in text processing.

• Developing in Common Lisp to the highest quality.

• Helping to manage various internal applications that form part of our infrastructure.

• Assorted other small applications that may include some work in other languages.

Requirements

• Professional experience developing in Lisp is not a requirement, but if you are not currently a Lisp expert you are willing to become one.

• Professional experience working as a developer in any language or equivalent quality personal projects.

• Experienced in developing for distributed infrastructures and making scalable systems.

• Strong understanding of functional and object-oriented programming.

• Adaptable and willing to learn new technologies independently.

• Good documentation and communication skills.

Desirable

• You are fluent in modern software development practices, including multi-threading, and distributed systems.

• Knowledge and experience with cloud computing, especially AWS.

• Experience writing text analysis or NLP software.

• Experience working with Oracle and other databases.

• Experience with using Machine Learning as a tool for NLP.

Management Opportunities

• For someone with team management experience there will be opportunities to manage a small established group.

• We are also interested in candidates with project management experience.

What's in it for you

• You will work with the latest technologies.

• Our Headquarter is located in Marbella. This is an Hybrid Remote role: You must be willing to be physically present in our office at least three times a week.

• Free Company shuttle bus from Malaga, Fuengirola, la Riviera and Estepona.

• You will have ownership of projects working in a collaborative environment where we will value your contribution.

• You will work in an agile environment able to react quickly to changes with a fairly flat hierarchy.

• As we encourage continuous learning, we will support your ongoing training.