Desired Skills and Experience

  • Collaborates with Senior Systems Architects, Software Team Leads and other Software Developers to design, develop and deploy technical solutions
  • Analyzes complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications
  • Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates
  • Uses both industry-standards and company’s existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards
  • Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests
  • Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements
  • Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments
  • Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and/or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production
  • Tests programs for integration prior to production
  • Mentors other software developers and IT staff members
  • Documents resolutions to system problems
  • Documents designs for system requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 6 years’ experience in:
  • Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities
  • Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members
  • Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines
  • Must work with System Architects to review/approve program and subsystem designs
  • Proficiency in UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing
  • Basic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
  • Background in Securities/Banking/Financial Services
  • Java IDE (preferably IntelliJ IDEA)
  • Unix/Linux
  • XML and/or Web Services
  • JDBC and JPA/Hibernate
  • Relational DB principles using Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Agile/Scrum methodologies
  • Experience working in a desktop Linux environment (preferably CentOS)
  • Experience working with an issue management system
  • Experience working with a wiki
  • Three weeks paid vacation
  • Nine paid holidays and six paid time off days annually
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance plans
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Company-paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • 401(k) Plan with match
  • 125(k) Plan
  • Education assistance programs
  • Casual dress
  • A fun, hard-working atmosphere!

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