Principal Software Engineer

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer

About the Company

SS&C Intralinks provides technology solutions for the global banking, deal-making and capital markets communities. As pioneers of the virtual data room, SS&C Intralinks enables and secures information flow, facilitating strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and investor reporting. Today, SS&C Intralinks has earned the trust and business of more than 99 percent of the Fortune 1000.

Benefits

Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans 

Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement

Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays 

Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave  

Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity 

Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University  

Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more! 

Job Description

SS&C Intralinks is seeking Principal Software Engineer to join the core platform team. This team that you’ll be part of is responsible for extending, improving, and upkeep of the platform that serves as the backbone of world’s most advanced, secure virtual data room VDRPro™. This highly performant platform helps dealmakers close 10,000+ M&A deals annually and has successfully facilitated $35+ trillion worth financial transactions. As a member of this talented team, you will be involved in design, development, and improvement of distributed content management which gets leveraged by Intralinks portfolio of SaaS applications. You are expected to get familiar with design and architecture of the core platform, thereafter we’ll look up to you to apply your expertise to help with continued growth of the platform thus helping the dealmakers across the world with timely completion of their transactions.

You are expected to

• Hold bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field along with 8+ years of experience building and designing enterprise software
• Work in a development team with members having varying degrees of professional experience and expertise
• Review Product requirements and design solutions to fulfill those requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Apply your expertise to resolve critical problems reported by customers
• Be a self-learner
• Identify and propose process efficiency improvements that can help your dev team, product/service use by end users
• Be willing to provide guidance and help to junior team members
• Embrace iterative development and agile process principles
• Be capable to handle code release and deployment to Production environments
• Effectively propose and present technical ideas and solutions

You should possess

• Intrinsic motivation to innovate, solve software related problems
• Ability to understand software requirements and estimate implementation schedule
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Scrum team
• Expertise in diagnosing software problems of varying degrees by using appropriate tools and methods
• Demonstrable ability to identify and propose new technologies
• Extensive development experience using Java, Spring Boot
• In-depth knowledge of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Struts
• Proficiency in designing and developing REST APIs
• Experience in designing solutions based on messaging technologies like ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with development and deployment of container-based microservices in Kubernetes
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL technologies like Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Experience using tools like Chef, Jenkin, Gradle, Maven, Git
• API management experience using tools like Apigee, Kong etc.
• Exposure to software design and/or development using object stores like MinIO, Amazon S3
• Experience incorporating application caching using technologies like Redis, Memcache, Infinispan, Coherence
• Thorough understanding of Distributed and Concurrent Systems; Asynchronous Programming Models; Event-Driven Programming

Will be a plus if you

• Have experience working with Kotlin, Ruby, NodeJS, JavaScript, HTML5, Python
• Have led teams, served as a mentor, developed or imparted training courses
• Are a certified Scrum Master

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.