Software Engineer, Backend Developer

Software Engineer I

Location:
Dallas, TX (On-site: 5 days in office)

The Firm:
Data Driven and Real-Asset Focused

Stronghold Investment Management (“Stronghold,” “SIM,” or “the Firm”) is a technology-driven, vertically integrated investment manager focused on real-assets and related private markets. Stronghold seeks to deliver best-in-class risk-adjusted returns through an investment framework that features comparatively rapid transaction velocity, deep technical expertise, creative financial structuring, and objective and algorithmic decision making.

Stronghold was founded by Ryan Turner in 2016 and has deployed over $1.6 billion in capital across 10+ investment vehicles. Ultimately, Stronghold intends to apply its technology-intensive investment approach to a variety of specialist real assets verticals, including:

• Oil & Gas
• Renewables
• Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure
• Billboards and Fixtures
• Mining & other commodities
• Utilities

We're seeking a Software Engineer I to join Stronghold's Tech Development team, your entry point into a firm where engineering isn't a support function, it's a competitive weapon.

You’ll work on the backend systems, APIs, and data infrastructure that keep a technology-driven investment firm running m day one, you’ll be writing real code on real systems, collaborating with senior engineers, data teams, and product to build infrastructure that directly impacts how Stronghold operates and invests.

Working primarily within a Ruby on Rails ecosystem, you’ll gain hands‑on experience building and supporting backend services powered by technologies including PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Microsoft Azure
. You’ll learn how these systems work together while contributing meaningful code to a platform built for speed, reliability, and scale.

This is the right opportunity for an early‑career engineer with 1–3 years of experience who’s hungry to grow fast, work on problems that matter, and build a foundation inside a firm that takes technical excellence seriously. If you want ownership earlier than you’d get anywhere else, this is it.

• Build from the ground up. Design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems, APIs, and data workflows, primarily within a Ruby on Rails environment, that keep firm‑wide operations running reliably and at scale.
• Learn the stack by building with it. Develop hands‑on experience across technologies including Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Microsoft Azure while contributing to production systems.
• Make data trustworthy. Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to ensure data integrity, accessibility, and consistency across systems that investment teams depend on daily.
• Write code that lasts. Deliver clean, efficient, testable, and maintainable code using engineering best practices, and strengthen your skills through code reviews and mentorship from senior engineers.
• Strengthen the data layer. Help build and optimize database schemas, queries, indexes, and data workflows across relational and non‑relational technologies, including PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Connect the ecosystem. Contribute to integrations between internal systems, backend services, and third‑party APIs, the connective tissue that makes the platform work as one.
• Build event‑driven workflows. Support the development of asynchronous and event‑driven systems using technologies such as Kafka to move data reliably across the platform.
• Automate the repetitive. Support the automation of data ingestion, validation, transformation, and operational workflows so the team can focus on what actually requires human judgment.
• Build for the cloud. Devel…