Senior Software Development Engineer

Developing quality software that is used by some of the world's largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and custodian banks

Participate in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap

Owning critical processes that are highly available and scalable

Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies

Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity

Helping mentor entry-level developers

Contributing to design and architectural decisions

Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce

Testing and validating in development and production code that they own, deploy, and monitor

Understanding, responding to, and addressing customer issues with empathy and in a timely manner

Independently can move a major feature or service through an entire lifecycle of design, development, deployment, and maintenance

Deep knowledge in multiple teams' domains; broad understanding of CW systems.

Creates documentation of system requirements and behavior across domains

Willingly takes on unowned and undesirable work that helps team velocity and quality

Is in touch with client needs and understands their usage

Consulted on quality, scaling and performance requirements before development on new features begins.

Understands, finds, and proposes solutions for systemic problems

Leads in the technical breakdown of deliverables and capabilities into features and stories.

Expert in unit testing techniques and design for testability, contributes to automated system testing requirements and design

Improves code quality and architecture to ensure testability and maintainability

Understands, designs, and tests for impact/performance on dependencies and adjacent components and services. Builds and maintains code in the context and awareness of the larger system

Helps less experienced engineers troubleshoot and solve problems

Active in mentoring and training of others inside and outside their division

Requirements:

Strong problem-solving skills

Experience with an object-oriented, or functional language

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Strong problem-solving skills

7+ years professional experience in industry-leading programming languages (Java/Python).

Background in SDLC & Agile practices.

Experience in monitoring production systems.

Experience with Machine Learning

Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Experience working with messaging systems such as Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka, or SQS/SNS.

Must be able to communicate (speak, read, comprehend, write in English).

Desired Experience or Skills:

Ability to build scalable backend services (Microservices, polyglot storage, messaging systems, data processing pipelines).

Possess strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities in the face of ambiguity.

Excellent written and verbal skills. Ability to contribute to software design documentation, presentation, sequence diagrams and present complex technical designs in a concise manner.

Professional experience in building distributed software systems, specializing in big data and NoSQL database technologies (Hadoop, Spark, DynamoDB, HBase, Hive, Cassandra, Vertica).

Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases

Strong problem-solving skills.

Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Detail oriented.

Motivated, team player.