The Software Engineer will be responsible for design, development, and integration of various technology solutions including development of our proprietary Investment Management System that supports all aspects of our business: advanced rule-based portfolio analytics, trading, operations, accounting, compliance, client management, integration, reporting and more.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the business unit and other team members to understand and document requirements

• Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our technology practices

• Design and develop business tier components

• Design and develop relational database models

• Design and develop interactive web-based user interfaces

• Design and develop integrated solutions with 3rd party data providers and systems

• Create unit/integration/functional tests

• Contribute to the evolution of our architecture to make it more flexible and easier to use

• Follow our development process and guidelines

• Conduct code reviews of other developers

• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate

 

Job Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on Java/J2EE design and development experience.

• Understanding of core language features and how to use them properly (interfaces, generics, annotations, reflection, closures, etc.)

• Practical knowledge of major open source projects including Spring and Hibernate.

• Experience building highly interactive web-based user interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON (knowledge of ExtJS is a plus).

• Experience with test driven development, JUnit, and mocking

• Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT or SVN.

• Working experience with agile development.

• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools like Ant or Gradle.

• Understanding of SOA, AOP and major design patterns including MVC, DAO, Observer, etc.

• Working experience with major application servers: Tomcat, WebLogic, etc.

• Knowledge of RDBMS and SQL.

• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers.