Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting while thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Write test cases, leverage unit and integration testing, develop functionality and automation
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expert proficiency in JavaScript, Typescript, and the React.js ecosystem
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Ability to collaborate with high-performing teams and individuals
- Experience managing code versioning and Pull Request (PR)/review practices for large teams
- Passionate about building an innovative culture and modern technology organization, and desire to continuously learn and grow
- Advocate of code quality and consistent experience with unit, functional, and integration code testing
- Understanding of Agile SDLC methodology, including business analysis, development, maintenance, and improvement
- Strong partnership capabilities in a cross-disciplinary organization and desire to learn and understand the business, and how requirements satisfy business needs
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with monorepo design and efficient implementations
- Experience with building cloud-native applications, ideally familiar with AWS, Azure, Pivotal, or other cloud platforms
- Familiar with designing and consuming APIs/microservices frameworks
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (ex: Jenkins) with end-to-end automation
- Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Understanding of web development best practices including security, RESTful practices
- Engineering in Fintech working in Investment Banking or Capital Markets