At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world! 

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship/transfer for this position.

What is the FTT – Advisor Digital Solutions Technology Team responsible for?

The FTT – Advisor Digital Solutions Technology team is building solutions to help advisors and wealth management firms run a successful business and scale how they manage their investment models, bringing a new approach to the asset management industry and the go-to-market for FT in building deeper partnerships.  This is a fast-paced environment to define and build a product that's truly unique and market-leading..

What is the Full-Stack Developer responsible for?

Our full-stack developer is a highly motivated and technical lead software engineer with solid experience in building technology for our Digital Solutions Technology group. You will partner with product owners, technical leads, engineers, and other teams to develop complex software components and advise developers on coding standards and guidelines, bringing excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, and a continuous learning focus on all that you do.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of a Full Stack Developer?

• Work with product owner(s) to design and develop software solutions/interfaces to meet business needs and assist in managing the product back-end

• Participate in sprint planning, release planning, and prioritization of work on the platform

• Hands-on development, data modelling, code quality, static code analysis, unit testing, design and code reviews, continuous integration, release management, performance tuning, and execution

• Comprehensive involvement in application lifecycle phases, including DevOps process, release deployments, and support

• Design, prototype, and code new software components and applications based on functional specifications across the full stack – services, web and API, infrastructure, and back-end

• Coordinate with analyst teams and vendors to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing

• Function as a highly-collaborative, team-oriented, and strong consensus builder; demonstrate an ability to partner across groups, regions, and functions

• Proactively engage with key stakeholders to understand business processes

• Write unit tests to ensure that a high-quality product is delivered

• On occasion, be available outside of normal office hours to troubleshoot and resolve critical issues that impact business workflows

• Plan and coordinate cross-team activities to complete assignments

• Keep abreast of technology and advise senior management on technical implementation

• Mentor junior developers and technical staff

What ideal qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful? 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, and/or Information Technology related fields

• A minimum of 7+ years of progressive software development

• Solid understanding of RESTful web services

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think quickly and offer alternatives - both independently and within teams

• Proven ability to work quickly in a dynamic environment with strong attention to detail and accuracy

• Highly motivated and able to work independently

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Previous experience working in Asset Management Industry is a +

What technology skill sets are critical to the success of this role?

• Excellent development experience with React/Next/TypeScript/NodeJS