Senior Software Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Tysons Corner

Compensation: $155,000 - $185,000 / year

Description

Nodal Exchange, the largest power futures exchange in North America, is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world’s largest sets of environmental and electric power futures and options contracts. All transactions on Nodal Exchange are cleared through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nodal Clear, using its award-winning portfolio-margining methodology. As leaders in innovation, Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear have built in-house most of the trading and clearing platforms that fuel our business. Nodal Exchange is part of the EEX Group which is in turn part of the Deutsche Börse Group. Nodal seeks talented and motivated applicants for the following role in Tysons Corner, VA (Washington, DC Metro area). 

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:Nodal seeks an intelligent, articulate, and skilled senior software engineer who is capable of designing and delivering maintainable, scalable and secure solutions by leveraging a team of engineers. This hire will: 

• Design and develop microservice based distributed systems with high availability, throughput, fault tolerance, and performance. Ensure solutions are testable, maintainable, and easy to operate
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Act as a strategic technical advisor continuously reevaluating architectures to meet the evolving technology needs of Nodal’s growing business. 
• Nodal has a hybrid work culture, and we are looking for an engineer that thrives in an environment that values in-office team interactions
• Participate in after-hours support in our on-call rotation, and lead incident reviews to identify high leverage preventative measures. Drive engineering improvements in our ability to detect, triage and resolve incidents more quickly.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• 6+ years of engineering experience building, deploying and operating distributed, high-volume services 
• Strong programming skills in Java. Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design, system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Past experience in handling on-call incidents 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to explain complex technical concepts to different audiences.
• Ability to translate business ideas into technical solutions and drive large-scale efforts across multiple teams

 Desired:

• Worked with Spring, Wildfly frameworks in Java
• Has experience with multiple Java versions like Java-8, 11, 17 & 21
• Strong programming skills in Kotlin, React framework
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Docker, Linux CLI skills
• Start-up experience

Salary Range: $155,000 - $185,000 per year base salary, when annualizedPay Transparency Notice: The salary range is based on the D.C. metro area, the successful candidate’s starting salary will vary depending on permissible, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to qualifications, skills, and experience. Nodal also offers a wide range of benefits and perks for full-time employees, which may include target bonuses. 

Benefits

Nodal Employee Benefits and Perks: https://nodalexchange.pinpointhq.com  Nodal Exchange, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status, physical or mental health, hairstyle, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or in any other terms and conditions of employment. Nodal Exchange is an E-verify participant.