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Droit | New York, NY and London, England | Functional Programmers | Onsite | Visa Who we are: Droit is a technology company at the forefront of merging finance and computational law. We build software that digitizes regulations and makes intelligent decisions in real-time, transactional systems. Our award-winning platform is providing mission-critical, low-latency services for the world’s most prominent and complex financial institutions. What our Software Engineers do: Droit's software engineers take holistic and collaborative approaches to solving the firm's core business problems. They don’t just write and review code - engineers are responsible for architecting and designing the infrastructure involved with any given project/deliverable and are also responsible for communicating these decisions effectively and clearly. Here are just some of the projects we're working on: * Business logic and APIs for our core decision engine * Functional-reactive applications * Domain-specific languages and compilers * Parsing laws from heterogeneous sources * Collaborating with our Knowledge Engineering team to research and design new product lines. What we're looking for: * A high degree of curiosity with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and solve challenging problems * The capacity to envision a variety of solutions and to clearly articulate them and explain the trade-offs * The ability to use functional programming to design simple and elegant solutions * A collaborative mind-set that enjoys working with others and knowledge sharing to achieve the best results * An eagerness to give and receive feedback in an open team atmosphere to better the overall result * Practical experience with a functional language such as Clojure, Scheme, Common Lisp or Haskell Any of the following would be an added benefit: * Experience using a RDBMS such as Postgres * Experience Building React applications and RESTful APIs * Experience with proof assistants For more details on the company, please visit our website: https://droit.tech