Senior Full stack engineer (React + Python/NodeJS)

Our client is a privately-owned investment management and advisory business.

They are looking for Senior Full stack engineer to join the teams in London. Permanent, 3 days in office.

Overview:

The team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and implementation of applications used by the various investment teams within company. The team structure is flat and close teamwork is pervasive. The team works closely with other engineering departments such as Data Pipelines, dev-ops, and infrastructure to name a few to deliver solutions that add real value.

Key Responsibilities

Software engineering is much more than the code we write. Your responsibilities will reflect that.

Full stack

• Work on internal portfolio management system and other tools supporting the investment team
• Mix of Front End (React), and Back End skills (mainly python, NodeJS)
• Learn, design and build Rest or Graphql services which provide an API driven culture
• Learn, design and build data pipelines with focus on ETL and ELT
• Integrate existing applications with new data sources
• Datamodelling and database design (we use Hive data lake, MongoDB, or SQL server depending on the need)
• All aspects of the SDLC, up to and including deployment to production

UI & UX

• Have a keen eye and interest for User Experience, as well as User Interface.

Business analysis

• We will expect you to be interested by the finance domain, to communicate with key stakeholders and then formulate pragmatic solutions to business needs.
• Understand business processes to a low level of detail and their areas of improvement
• Close collaboration will be needed- the business will provide prioritisation and the context of the assignments.
• Engineering team members work together to provide a cohesive technical solution

Requirements

• Application & Service development in Python, nodejs, REST/graphql or Java or csharp for 8+ years
• Git experience including code review using pull requests
• SQL Server or NoSQL development for 5+ years
• Exposure to ETL pipelines (Airflow, Spark, dbt) for 2+ years
• Clean code, test driven development and other good coding practices
• React.js, Redux preferred, good for 1+ years
• Working knowledge of Docker container management
• Have experience working in Front Office/Traders