Junior Software Engineer

Your Job

This position is ideal for an early-career professional who is passionate about the intersection of software, data, and finance. You will gain experience across the full stack (front-end and back-end) while analyzing complex datasets to inform strategic decisions. Over time, you’ll develop a broad skill set combining software engineering best practices, data analytics, and foundational finance concepts. A deep finance background is not required—curiosity, a quantitative foundation, and willingness to learn are.

Koch Equity Development (KED) is the principal investment and acquisition arm of Koch Inc., one of the largest privately held businesses in America. Within KED, our data and software team develop technology-driven solutions that optimize internal processes, unlock revenue synergies, and provide actionable insights. You’ll work alongside a small, high-impact team that operates like a well-funded startup within a large, privately held enterprise.

- Maintain and improve our suite of tools that enable the business to originate new investments and improve portfolio company performance.

- Collaborate heavily with investment professionals, operators, and consultants to build tools that are results from conversations and feedback (requirements).

- Own meaningful parts of our internal platform, including backend logic, data modeling, and front-end interaction design.

- Design, test, and ship features across the stack using Python and modern web technologies.

- Help rapidly prototype MVPs to test hypotheses and double down on what works.

- Refactor and improve the system as new needs emerge or scale increases.

- Build systems that enhance visibility into financial, operational, and market data—and make it easier for our team to be better investors.

- Explore bleeding-edge technologies to provide an organizational advantage.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

- Experience programming in Python or Java or C# or JavaScript

- Experience working with SQL databases for querying

- Experience using data analysis tools or libraries (e.g., pandas, SQL, Excel)

- Experience translating requirements into a written code.

- Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What Will Put You Ahead

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics or Engineering or Finance

- Experience programming in Python and leveraging python libraries

- Experience supporting or building investment, financial, private equity, or corporate strategy applications

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

As a Koch company and the acquisition and investment subsidiary of Koch, Koch Equity Development (KED) has the primary responsibility of profitably investing the company’s excess capital. We focus our efforts on strategic acquisitions and industry agnostic principle investments for the group’s own portfolio. This permits KED to explore a wide, diverse range of opportunities and investments

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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