Sr. Front End Developer

Position: Sr. Front End Developer
Location: Hybrid - Onsite in McLean Tuesday through Thursday.

Must Have Qualifications: Front end technology web applications with Angular, jQuery, and REACT. Web UI based on Angular framework, jQuery and Material design. This position requires 70% front end 30 % backend.

Candidate Vetting Questions - *Please include answers to these question at the top of candidate resume. Submittals without answers will not be considered.

1. How do you handle challenges or difficult situations - please provide an example?
2. How do you set goals - please provide an example of a goal you've reached recently?

Responsibilities:

Model Application Development:

• Design, develop, test, and support the applications and services within financial modeling and research division.
• Involve in fixing the defects and addressing the technical debts to ensure best software development practices are met.
• Write clean, robust, high-quality code following best practices and backed by automated unit and integration tests with full coverage.
• Coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Assist with the infrastructure upgrades and adoption of new technologies.
• A commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Monitor System’s Execution in Production · Use automated and other tools to detect any problems in the operational environment.

• Proactively connect with technology and business to resolve operational problems.
• Implement automation requirements and other technical enhancements.

First-line Requirements Validation

• Actively seek opportunities to continuously improve the quality of systems and processes.
• Promote industry-leading design practices for mission-critical applications.

Analysis and Communication

• Perform designed or ad-hoc analysis in a constantly evolving and moving environment to support capital markets trading desks.
• Clearly craft and articulate messages (both written and verbal) related to Finance and Technology to a broad range of audiences.
• Seek and design ways to automate tasks; ideally using Java or other programming languages.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of hands-on software development and programming experience with knowledge of application, data and architecture design patterns and principles.
• Must have a strong background in developing scalable applications and services based on Java frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Kafka and Netflix stack for microservices.
• Must possess experience developing rich, classy, and sophisticated web UI based on Angular framework, jQuery and Material design.
• Familiarity with REST API design, development, and documentation.
• Experience with build and integration tools, including knowledge of Gradle, Jenkins, Git and Docker.
• Strong acumen to learn the business functions and features that need to be delivered.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with fundamental web front-end languages and frameworks.
• Familiarity with database technologies such as SQL Server, Sybase, Redis, MongoDB and so on.

Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and acceptance tests.