Senior Engineer II

Overview

We are a passionate agile team, that builds innovative solutions for our customers that solve real world problems. As a member of our team, you will work side by side with our customer and front office teams to build, maintain, and enhance systems that support our customer and sales platforms. Our team-members assist in influencing the direction of our technology and interact with others to develop creative solutions. You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact – the work you do will have a significant positive impact on our company.

We are currently seeking a talented Senior Engineer II with a strong focus on trade system development.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer II you will be responsible for the following:

• Participate in scrum ceremonies, including Story Pointing, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Develop initial concept and apply iterative changes based on feedback.
• Develop web applications using MVC framework and querying underlying data sources using LINQ and Entity Framework with a SQL Server backend database.
• Develop restful services using Web API for consuming and exposing data to different applications.
• Develop responsive user interfaces using HTML5 (Canvas and Web Sockets), modern JavaScript frameworks and CSS/SASS.
• Write unit test cases for testing business logic and automation tests using selenium for testing the user interface and regression testing.
• Work with Azure DevOps for maintaining source code and Kubernetes for CI/CD.
• Responsible for creating tables, views, stored procedures and making schema changes whenever necessary.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related Degree.

• Must be authorized to work in the US for any employer.

• Minimally 4-5 years of UI framework experience with React (preferred) or similar technologies.
• 7 or more years of professional experience participating in a Scrum development environment
• 10 years of professional front end, web, or mobile software developing with C#, .Net, or MVC frameworks.
• 10 years of professional relational database development (Microsoft SQL Server) and implementing SOA with emphasis on RESTful services.
• A growth mindset and willingness to solve challenging problems.
• Ability to remain flexible during times of change and react to project adjustments and alterations promptly, efficiently, and positively.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• Capable of designing, owning, and running entirely new, novel systems from scratch.
• Demonstrated proficiency with JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript
• Demonstrated proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and SASS
• Proven experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (Azure)
• Proven exposure to distributed messaging / streaming platforms (Apache Kafka)
• Proven Experience working with UX/UI designers and working with wire-frames/prototypes, iterating through to high-def/production ready UI.
• Proven Experience with responsive web design and the ability to deliver outstanding functionality across devices and platforms.
• Must be able to learn, understand and apply new technologies, as well as mentor and train others in using new technologies.
• Proven ability to make decisions, manage projects and meet strict deadlines.
• Sought out for technical guidance; anticipates technical issues at the product level and makes architectural and design decisions to avoid them.
• Strong software design and architecture experience and expertise is required.
• Understanding of design and skills relating to the user experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of financial markets or a strong desire to learn.
• Demonstrated leadership/mentorship experience.
• Strong working knowledge of designing, developing and maintaining highly scaled distributed systems

• Experience with one or more of the following technologies: Front-end development frameworks (Angular, React or Vue.js), Cloud services (Microsoft Azure), Message queue-based designs/implementations, Git code repositories, Reporting services (Power BI, Kibana), FIX protocol.
• Proficiency with JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript
• Experience working with NoSQL databases – key/value, document or graph.
• Excellent verbal, written and relationship skills used to interact with a global group of technical and non-technical people.
• Experience
• Knowledge of server-side configuration and deployment (Kubernetes, IIS, TeamCity, Octopus).
• Passion for writing unit and automated tests.