Back-End Software Engineer (Contractor)

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver investment data technology solutions in support of Research, Portfolio Management, Trading, Analytics and Reporting functions.
• Formulate, design, develop, test, and deliver data technology solutions with a balanced focus on speed and quality.
• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and project managers to develop user stories, estimates, and work plans.
• Work with minimal supervision and advise business clients and IT management of technology capabilities and recommend strategies to maximize the benefits of new technologies.
• Identify, design, and implement changes to data pipelines at various stages including data ingestion, data validation, and quality control, data integration, storage, management, and data delivery.
• Write unit/integration tests, contribute to engineering wiki, and write detailed documentation.
• Build high-performance and scalable data-transfer toolsets which reliably transfer datasets between endpoints within established SLA's.
• Focus on data consistency, refresh rates and caching requirements while keeping the data current across a variety of interfaces.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and develop supportable solutions.
• Participate in code and design reviews.
• Provide technical troubleshooting and support for production systems.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, computer science, or a related field. Master’s degree is preferred.
• 4 to 5 years of programming experience in Python (open source) or equivalent.
• Ability to work on multiple programming languages and platform is highly preferred.
• Proficiency in building RESTful APIs and web services.
• 4 to 5 years of SQL experience (No-SQL experience is a plus).
• Familiarity with SOLID principles and Domain driven design.
• Experience in high performance and high availability data applications and must have a keen eye for performance optimization and tuning.
• Experience with automated acceptance testing and ability to write unit-tested, maintainable code.
• Good understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design and build highly secure applications.
• Experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
• Experience working with Agile Scrum and waterfall methodologies with a software development and integration focus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with a keen sense of customer service.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services industry knowledge or experience a plus.
• Experience with the following: Kafka, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Elastic Stack, RabbitMQ, Redis, Docker, Okta, OAuth2, PlainID.