Lead Software Engineer

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Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) is a leader in risk and compliance solutions, providing insightful technology, industry expertise and data insights to clients across the globe. We’re here to help you make smarter decisions with insightful technology, industry expertise and data insights at every stage of your business and investment lifecycles. As markets fluctuate, regulations evolve and technology advances, we’re there. And through it all, we deliver confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter. 

Description

Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to evolve our Venue Virtual Data Room product into a set of fault tolerant, autonomously scalable, and performant microservices in Azure. We are seeking passionate software craftspeople to solve complex data storage, access, search, and analytics problems. If you are committed to delivering high quality, maintainable, reliable, performant, and scalable software, this role might be the perfect fit. Come be part of a growing, innovative team that cares about you and your personal growth and development. This role is availible for both our downtown Chicago location or our office located in Downers Grove

What you will do

  • Take ownership of complex problems and provide solutions with minimal direction.
  • Specify non-functional software requirements and analyze requirements to determine design feasibility within time and cost constraints.
  • Estimate and be accountable to software development timelines. 
  • Design object oriented software using best practice software engineering including separation of concerns, high cohesion, low coupling, abstraction, encapsulation and information hiding, interfaces, and dependency injection. 
  • Implement object oriented software using defensive programming and exception handling, design patterns and object oriented programming (OOP) principles like SOLID.
  • Test software with traceability back to requirements using autonomous frameworks and Continuous Integration.
  • Follow and improve agile software development process and practice.
  • Identify and reduce technical debt.
  • Set an example of software engineering best practice junior engineers can emulate.

Required Experience and Skills

  • Deep understanding of and fanatical adherence to best practice software engineering including separation of concerns, high cohesion, low coupling, modularization, encapsulation and information hiding, interfaces, and dependency injection; you can think abstractly and transform your thinking into practical implementation. 
  • Object orientation analysis (OOA) and design (OOD) is part of your daily working agile methodology, including the application of design patterns and object oriented programming (OOP) principles such as SOLID; you actually do class, component, sequence, system, and deployment diagrams.
  • Proven success delivering solutions for different types of problems for fault tolerant, low latency distributed systems, data storage, transformation and access, or text search. 
  • Performance monitoring and scalability is part of your architecture and design work, not an afterthought in implementation. 
  • Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills 
  • At least 6 years of software engineering experience on complex distributed systems.
  • Fluent in C#/ . NET, Java, Scala, and/or C++, git and branching models like Gitflow.
  • Experience with small teams that move fast.
  • Willing and able to set and meet delivery deadlines. 
  • Expert application of modern automated test frameworks and Continuous Integration.
  • You can go up and down the stack from deep in the infrastructure layer all the way up to the client libraries.
  • API first design building scalable ReSTful APIs, ideally using an IDL like OpenAPI.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering. 

 

Preferred Experience and Skills

  • Relational and non-relational database experience; you've also used a cache like Redis.
  • Knowledge or experience with cloud platforms (Azure or AWS) and infrastructure as code.
  • Understanding or experience with Docker & Kubernetes

 

It is the policy of Donnelley Financial Solutions to select, place and manage all its employees without discrimination based on race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, actual or perceived disability, veteran's status, actual or perceived sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. 

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access jobs.dfinsolutions.com as a result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to [email protected].

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Location

Located in the heart of downtown Chicago’s financial district, we are steps from all Metra stations, good eats and entertainment.

An Insider's view of DFIN

How would you describe the company’s work-life balance?

The company culture that I love the most about Donnelley is the flexibility and work-life balance. Working in this role with my peers, my leadership team, and within my own team — everyone understands that you have other things to take care of outside of your work.

Aravinda

VP, IT Infrastructure & Operations

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

The new employee is paired up with one or two team members to accomplish their first set of tasks and collaboration is encouraged every step of the way. We have other meetings on a cadence and will break into smaller groups when it feels right. For local employees who thrive on face-to-face collaboration, we try to meet in-person when possible.

Gary

Engineering Manager

What makes someone successful on your team?

Active and honest listening – Contrary to the stereotypical, extroverted sales rep, some of my most effective and insightful client interactions are when I do the least amount of talking, and the most active listening. Client insight is exponentially easier to excavate when you stop “pitching” – and start listening.

Carey

Senior Sales Representative

What is your vision for the company?

Our business plan reflects the change in products DFIN is selling today versus what we sell in five years. DFIN today is a company that offers a lot of professional services that we added software to, but the goal is to become a SaaS company that has services to support it.

Stephen

SVP, Global Head of Engineering

What are DFIN Perks + Benefits

DFIN Benefits Overview

The world continues to change in ways we never expected, but there is one constant: your safety and well-being is a top priority, and DFIN has you covered with our benefits.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
We value a work / life balance at DFIN.
Remote work program
We have partial and fully remote opportunities at DFIN.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Wellness days
Unlimited PTO structure to support Wellness.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Family Medical Leave granted under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Adoption Assistance
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Floating holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Hardship benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Employee parking available
Fitness stipend
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training
Apprenticeship programs

Additional Perks + Benefits

DFIN has implemented a Employee Stock Purchase Program.

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