Capital markets technology platform unlocking institutional capital flows
Capitolis operates a Java + Spring Boot backend powering a React frontend, deployed on AWS with Kafka for event streaming and PostgreSQL for persistence — a mature, scalable stack designed for financial-grade reliability. Current hiring is heavily skewed toward senior engineers and director-level roles, with minimal junior headcount, suggesting they're scaling specific technical bets (capital marketplace, financial algorithm productionization) rather than broad team expansion. Pain points center on risk governance and market-risk oversight infrastructure, indicating the product is moving beyond prototype into regulated institutional deployment.
Capitolis builds capital markets infrastructure for banks and institutional investors. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York with offices in London and Tel Aviv, the company operates at the intersection of fintech and institutional finance — solving capital allocation and portfolio optimization problems for global financial institutions. The product surfaces three active focus areas: a capital marketplace mechanism, productionization of complex financial algorithms, and portfolio optimization tooling. The organization is capital-efficient, operating with fewer than 200 employees across engineering, product, and finance functions.
Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL for the backend; React, GraphQL, and Node.js for the frontend; AWS for infrastructure; Kafka for event streaming; Jenkins for CI/CD.
New York, New York. The company also operates offices in London and Tel Aviv.
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