Software Engineer

About the role:

As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting as a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other related disciplines and 5+ years applied experience
• Commercial experience working with React and Java
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful
• Knowledge of the web technologies (Javascript/Typescript/NodeJS ecosystem and bundling tooling)
• Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot, messaging frameworks such as Kafka, maven, junit mocking frameworks)
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
• Expertise in Databases, relational, and MongoDB and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning within a commercial setting
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.