Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY

Job Description:

Responsibilities :

• Drive the Technical team and the Product Owners in an Agile development process.
• Responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices Guards and shields the team from distractions and interruptions from external interferences.
• Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions.
• Has strong understanding of the overall software delivery lifecycle and activities.
• Promote and participate in the continuous improvement of structure, processes,tooling to enable the teams to deliver more value.
• Organize and facilitate standups, release and sprint planning, reviews, demos and retrospectives.
• Support efforts to code, design, and testing in a heterogeneous technology environment e.g. JavaScript MVC, HTML, CSS, Java/ J2EE Identify opportunities for process and tool improvements and drive those from concept to implementation.
• Engineer a world-class platform with an eye towards rapid iteration and creative problem solving.
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit, integration, and regression capabilities.
• Adheres to architecture standards, risk management and security policies.
• Contribute and collaborate in creation and consumption of open, standards-based solutions, while working with existing Valueline technologies and infrastructure

Must have :

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field 8+ years of experience in Information Technology, preferably some knowledge of Financial industry.
• 2-3 years experience leading teams in Agile environment.
• Web development experience working on Windows or Java platforms Experience with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and Spring frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of development concepts and object-oriented technologies.
• Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience of testing at the unit, integration and system levels Experience with at least one web application server such as Tomcat, .NET or similar(Java/J2EE or .Net, Spring, & JSON skills for implementing web technologies.
• Understanding in Scala, JQuery, NodeJS, AngularJS, React, extJS, SenchaTouch Framework, Promise, and other frameworks like (FlightJS, requireJS, wireJS , AngularJS)
• Understanding of multithreaded software design.