Lead Software Engineer

As a full stack developer in the Advisor Workstation team, you will be working in the client services team providing high-level support to our customers by addressing their day-to-day issues with cutting-edge engineering solutions. This position is based in our Chicago office. This role follows a hybrid policy of 4 days onsite (Monday - Thursday) and 1-day remote work. In this role, you will: 

• Observe and Understand: Monitor and analyze the nature of client issues reported pertaining to the modules you own. Establish patterns and develop an intuition for systemic solutions. 
• Fix and Develop: Undertake tactical fixes while also developing long-term solutions to address recurring issues. 
• Architect and Propose: Design and propose module features that go beyond solving immediate issues. Explore and implement industry-leading approaches to push the boundaries of service forward by partnering with development teams. 
• Research and Solve: Conduct research to understand the root causes of issues and develop innovative solutions, alongside module owners. 
• Cycle Back to Observe: Continuously monitor the effectiveness of implemented solutions and refine them as needed. 

Additionally, you will: 

• Build and deploy well-designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable solutions following established guidelines through peer reviews for design and code, unit test results, and deployment processes.
• Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture.
• Manage development projects through the whole project life cycle.
• Apply DevOps practices in continuous and automated deployment.
• Mentor and lead other members of the development team, guiding them in delivering solutions and resolving technical problems.
• Solve advisor problems with technology, understand market chaos at work, and craft technically sound solutions that will meet the needs of the enterprise and individual advisors.
• Follow software design best practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and regular deployments. 

This position is based in our Chicago office. This role follows a hybrid policy of 4 days onsite (Monday - Thursday) and 1-day remote work.

Job Requirements: 

• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field 
• Minimum of 10 years of experience developing software solutions 
• Building backends in C#, .NET, .NET Core is a must. 
• Experience building applications in AWS (ECS, Lambda, Glue Jobs, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ELB, CloudFront, Route53) is a must. 
• Experience building web applications using modern web UI frameworks like Vue.js/React/Angular (preferably Vue.js) 
• Experience implementing RESTful APIs and microservices 
• Hands on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases (preferably MS SQL, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL). 
• Experience with modern development practices in areas of product design, requirement analysis, test driven development, and test automation. 
• Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of multi-tiered applications 
• Experience with Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CFT, CDK 
• Experience working in a collaborative and agile environment such as Scrum 
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies. 
• Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills 

Good to Have: 

• Knowledge and experience with AI and Machine Learning tools 
• Knowledge of networking and authentication fundamentals (TCP/IP, TLS 1.2, SAML 2.0, OIDC) 
• Experience with Java, Spring, and Spring Boot, Python, Node 
• AWS Certification 
• Experience with DevOps engineering concepts and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Harness, Jenkins, Nexus, etc., 
• Knowledge of APM Tools NewRelic, Splunk, Google Looker Studio 
• Exposure to Financial Services and Capital Market domain