Alpha Capture Software Engineer

New York, NY 10013

Posted: 01/24/2017 Category: Front End Dev Job Number: 8475

Job Description


Our Client is seeking a driven Web 2.0 software engineer to join their alpha-capture product team.  Partnering with software engineers across the organization, you will be instrumental in building scalable, multi-server, multi-database web applications that drive the firms quantitative trading models. This undertaking requires the following:
  • Integrating dynamic back-end functionalities;
  • Implementing compelling, functional user interfaces that support the success of their electronic alpha-capture business;
  • Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks;
  • Participating in design and code reviews;
  • Defining and communicating best practices for web-based user interface engineering across the organization.

Requirements Include:
  • At least a bachelor’ s degree in computer science. An ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code.
  • Proficiency in several programming languages such as Java, Groovy, C or C++.
  • Experience with front-end javascript libraries like Google Closure, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo.
  • Strong working knowledge of current web standards including CSS3 and HTML 5.
  • Proficiency in highly scalable frameworks and experience with Java Servlet containers like Tomcat or Jetty is a definite advantage. Knowledge of highly available message queue systems such as RabbitMQ, distributed cache like Membase and distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop is preferable.
  • An obsession with building tools and developing scalable, real-time web applications on both front-end and back-end components.

Job Requirements

Java, Groovy, HTML5, CSS3, Java Servlet, UI

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Evan Pollock

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