The Investment Technologies group is looking for an exceptional software developer for the front office portfolio finance team. The portfolio finance team is a dynamic and innovating group of developers who are passionate about delivering cutting-edge solutions to the business stakeholders. Some of these solutions include securities borrowing, cash management, and collateral management. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to drive innovation, build software solutions, automate software pipelines, and diagnose and fix software issues for the critical systems that drive our investment capabilities. The ideal candidate is self-driven, team-oriented, and has a passion for improving software architecture and the development process.
Responsibilities
This role will be responsible for designing and implementing software solutions in the following areas:
Full stack software design and development on an agile team
Continuously deliver high quality code and work to identify potential areas for improvement
Automate the software development, testing and deployment process
Write unit tests and perform code reviews to ensure code quality and adhere to best practices
Design and Develop cloud-native applications and REST-based APIs and deploy them to AWS using modern cloud services.
Embrace development best practices like continuous delivery, test automation, and containerized deployments
Work closely with other groups including developers, DBAs, network engineers and third party vendors / consultants
Engage with business and technology leaders to understand the strategy, articulate solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions
Create and maintain systems and support documentation that is thorough, complete, and of a professional caliber
Stay up-to date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, and apply them to the projects
The ideal candidate is an experienced hands-on engineer, a mentor to junior team members of the team, self-motivated, process-driven and a problem solver. This role is responsible for designing and developing software solutions, which take complex investment ideas and bring them to life.
Qualifications
Degree in Computer Science or related field
Minimum of 5 years of programming experience preferably in financial applications
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Strong background in modern, cloud based architecture, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming, and an understanding and adherence to SOLID design principles
Experience with unit testing, isolation frameworks, and behavior driven development
Experience with developing applications for cloud, preferably AWS.
Experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
Technology stack development experience in:
Web development using React, Angular or similar web technologies
Server-side development in Python, C# (.Net Core) and Web API, REST API
Back-end development using T-SQL
AWS Services: S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Step Functions, API Gateway, Glue, Lake Formation, Cloud Watch
Great communication & organizational skills, drive, energy, enthusiasm, maturity, and confidence.
Value-Add Experience & Competencies
Experience with developing full stack financial applications
Experience with messaging frameworks like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar
Experience with NoSQL databases
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab preferred
Experience with the ELK stack
Experience with high performance computing
Experience with observability in dynamic IT environments
We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.