As a full-stack engineer, within the Nexus program, you will be joining a motivated team of professionals working to develop a new mission critical global front-office platform used by Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and Quants. You will gain exposure to a variety of partners at all levels, from Senior Technology leaders to Senior Business partners. In addition, you will obtain exposure and experience in the latest technologies. We are adopting a wide array of technology from some of the most proven Open Source projects to tried-and-true enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

Principal Accountabilities:

Development

• Your focus will be on a feature of the global platform, with an eye towards developing solutions that can be leveraged throughout the organization.
• Contribute to the creation of accurate estimates for planned work along with senior members of the team.
• Understand that quality is not only following the latest pattern. You take pride in developing concise and elegant code.
• Be able to work with minimal oversight from Senior team members
• You understand the importance of continuous delivery practices to increase speed of delivery.

Analysis

• Work with engineering leads and analysts to ingest requirements and decompose them into smaller tasks.
• Have the ability to think big, but know that you must go through each step of the way to get there.

Support

• Embrace the support team and ensure that enhancements are transitioned effectively to all of those involved.
• Provide 3^rd line support, as appropriate, leading the investigation of production issues and being proactive in preventing their repeat.

Teamwork

• You seek to acquire knowledge and experience from senior team members and share your own knowledge with peers; both in technical and business aspects.
• We are working on a global platform, so experience working on global development teams is highly valued.

Qualifications

Experience and Background

• Learning doesn’t stop. You are perpetual student to all aspects of software development and engineering, it is a passion of yours.
• You understand the importance of task estimation, and work to exceed expectations.
• You have a keen ability to decompose product backlogs from high level design to detailed functional requirements and turn these into tasks.
• Show the ability to evolve a Proof-of-Concept into a functioning application.
• Exhibit the ability to work in a Test-driven manner or at least the capacity to cover code to appropriate levels
• Must be able to demonstrate a collaborative approach with all members of the team.
• You understand what it takes to produce clean and maintainable code.

Competence and Characteristics

• Communication is critical to our success. You must be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of partners, managers and subject matter experts.
• You are constantly looking for a new and exciting challenge. You must be able to demonstrate the ability to contribute within the development team through challenging requirements and tight timescales.
• You enjoy participating in daily stand-ups and other agile ceremonies to ensure the whole team are kept informed of your work.
• You have a passion for automation and a love for the craft of software development.
• Data-driven organizations lead to a competitive advantage. You have a strong understanding of the power of enabling Business Partners and allowing them to become data-driven.

Specialist Knowledge & Skills

• Strong C#/.NET (4.6+, .NET core)
• Testing Frameworks: NUnit,SpecFlow or similar
• Testing Methodologies: TDD/BDD
• Middle Tier Framework: WebAPI (1.0, 2.0+) or WCF
• SOA Approach: RESTful, SOAP
• SOA Specialization: Microservices
• Source Control: Git, Bitbucket, Gogs
• Source Control Methodology: GitFlow, Centralized, Feature Branch
• Development Methodologies: Agile or GROWS
• Database: Strong SQL and RDBMS knowledge, NoSQL
• Database design: Star Schema (Facts and Dimensions)
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Bamboo
• Design Patterns: Factory, Singleton, Decorator, Observer, Inversion of Control
• Work Flow Frameworks: Confluence & Jira
• Application Frameworks: Angular 2.0+, React, Bootstrap, HTML5 / JavaScript / CSS3
• Messaging: Solace, IBM MQ, Kafka
• Security: OAuth2.0, RBAC
• Other: Swagger API Documentation 

Preferred Academic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering