Overall Job Purpose

The Senior Software Engineer will be working with both internal technical developers and external teams to use new technology to solve challenges for both the front-end and back-end architecture, ultimately delivering amazing experiences for our customers. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for building solutions across the stack, web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages.

Principle Accountabilities

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth.
• Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements.
• Assume leadership of new projects, from conceptualization to deployment.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality and application design.
• Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities.
• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment.
• Architect & provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale.
• Work primarily in Ruby, Java/JRuby, React, and JavaScript.
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs (both internal and external teams).
• Collaborate across time zones via Slack, GitHub comments, documents, and virtual meetings
• Provide process improvement recommendations based on best practices and industry standards
• Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• A Master’s degree in an appropriate field of study is an added advantage.
• Over 5 years of experience in integration, solution architecture, and UI/UX design in the financial services sector.
• Strong organizational and DevOps delivery methodology.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience working in an agile environment.

Key Competencies and Skills

• Planning, documentation, budgeting, and resource planning for all research projects.
• Determine and select options to achieve goals and/or resolve ad hoc emergent issues.
• Managed delivery teams assigned to innovation products within the specified timelines
• Monitor the development and implementation of innovation projects within the defined timelines.
• Quickly and appropriately respond to, or drive, change, while maintaining flexibility and focus.
• Influence others through personal advocacy, and vision, and build a solid platform for change. 
• Persists to complete tasks/responsibilities, even in the face of difficulties, are optimistic and tenacious all through.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of different programming languages such as Java, C#, etc.
• Possesses high-level understanding in the areas of web application programming, content management systems, API, database and system design
• Experience designing and working with multi-layered architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Machine learning techniques
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group; of developers, product owners, and subject matter experts.
• Resolves conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies
• Results-oriented, excellent interpersonal skills, analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, good communicator, innovative, self-driven and a team player who can work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to analyze large quantities of data and provide reports regarding efficiency
• Strong business acumen: Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them.

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