Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Salary: $150k-$160k + Bonus

Location: Hybrid role, 2 days in-office/ 3 days remote in either location

Chicago, IL / Dallas, TX

**We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role**

**Bonus Eligible**

A prestigious financial company is seeking a Software Engineer 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

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
• 5+ years of Front End/ Backend Java development
• 5+ years of experience in JavaScript skills
• 3+ years of experience in Spring Framework
• 3+ years of hands-on HTML5/CSS3 experience
• 3+ years working in Cloud environment.
• Experience with popular Javascript frameworks such as React, Node JS, Vue, Angular 2.0
• Experience of working with websockets, HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC
• Experience following Git workflows
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Responsibilities

• 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.