Summary

The Associate Principal, Software Engineering will be responsible for the development and delivery of business features in the front end applications, integrating with a variety of upstream data-sources and presenting data through the user interface, all while enriching and advancing the platform. This software must achieve a blend of data-rich presentation, performance, user experience, and the capacity to support the busiest trading days in the world economy with rock-solid reliability. The candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve these objectives. This individual will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in an agile environment

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Contribute to design, technical direction and architecture including collaborating with various teams to build fit for purpose solutions
• Applies expert knowledge of Java, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, Angular 2.0 or ReactJS and middle-ware technologies in independently designing and developing key services with a focus on continuous integration and delivery
• Participates in code reviews, proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues and defects as well as assisting with continuous improvement
• Drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality
• Must be a willing self-starter, independent and comfortable with a fast paced, dynamic environment
• A team player who assists the team as required to achieve collective goals & delivery milestones including knowledge-share
• Embraces and advocates for Agile best practices for software development discipline (be true to Agile Manifesto)
• Actively participates in creation and review of both business and technical user stories, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements
• Integrating disparate data from REST and WebSocket services within a cohesive user interface
• Participating in innovative design and proof of concepts with emerging technologies and solutions
• Embrace industry best practices like continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, TDD etc
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks
• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Assist with departmental and new employee training

Supervisory Responsibilities:

N/A

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• 5+ years of Front End, User Experience, development (required)
• 5+ years of experience in JavaScript skills (required)
• 3 + years of experience automating workflows inside Appian and in conjunction with integration to other tools (required)
• 3+ years of experience in React application development (required)
• 3+ years of hands-on HTML5/CSS3 experience (required)
• Experience with Java and/or Python (required)
• Experience with popular Javascript frameworks such as React, Node JS, Vue, Angular 2.0 (required)
• Experience of working with websockets, HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2 (required)
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC (required)
• Ability to write clean, bug-free code that is easy to understand and easily maintainable (required)
• Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing (required)

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years hands-on experience in Java, including good understanding of Java fundamentals such as Memory Model, Runtime Environment, Concurrency and Multithreading (required)
• Past/Current experience of 3+ years working on a large scale cloud native project (platform: Unix/Linux, Type of Systems: event-driven / transaction processing / high performance computing) as Technical Lead. These experiences should include developing / architecting core libraries or framework used by the platform