Cloud Platform Development Lead POST NUMBER: 431208
Location: Remote
Duration: 06 Month
Client is seeking a full stack software engineer. As a team member on an Agile team that develops and supports an internal cloud-based platform. The team supports both back-end services in Python as well as a modern front end UI framework. You will be part of Agile technology team in a global organization comprising of DEV/QA/PO teams. The candidate must be a delivery-focused person, initiative-taking with an agile development mindset.
Client is the world’s leading resource for benchmarks and investable indices. As a developer in this role, you will contribute to building a system that has a broad global impact on the stability of financial markets and to the results of individual investing. The team builds tools for our business users to manage market indices. This project is a new phase of development focused on improving user experience and introducing innovative new capabilities.
A full stack engineer for this role means that you are working primarily as a front-end developer, but you are also comfortable working on databases, REST APIs and you easily understand business logic implementation. You enjoy agile prototyping, collaborating with your team and customers, and delivering high-quality / high business value product. The ideal candidate is a problem solver and an innovator more than someone who just implements requirements.
Candidates should be:
• An accomplished software developer with 10 years of professional experience. You should have several years of proven object-oriented programming expertise and full-system development and architecture mentality. You also need to understand code abstraction, front end architecture and design patterns. Prior team technical leadership skills preferred.
• A full stack developer capable of front-end UI/UX and and back-end development API and database work, but primarily focused on UI.
• Enjoys solving complex technical challenges and unique business problems; always curious and wanting to learn.
• A strong team player: Focused on success of the team – completing sprint goals, aligning with the objectives of the larger organization, and understanding the users’ needs.
• Must communicate and collaborate well in Agile team of 5 – 8 engineers and QA, balancing individual tasks with larger team goals.
• Initiative-taking and delivery focused. Able to produce quality results from only high-level direction, and iteratively commits PRs to collaborate with the team.
Requirements:
• 10 years of diverse professional software engineering on a wide range of technologies
• Primary languages include JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Python, SQL.
• Front-end engineering and architecture experience in building complex Single Page Applications (SPA) using JavaScript / Typescript
• Strong Vue JS (including Vue3) expertise. React experience is helpful, but this is primarily a Vue3 based UI. (must be able to get started immediately on Vue)
• Back-end skills including Python and JavaScript, PostgreSQL database, Python app servers such as Flask or FastAPI and deploying on Nginx.
• Data visualization experience using various libraries such as Tableau, Highcharts, Chartjs, Supertset, (or any charting libraries) and creating SQL queries and APIs to support data visualization in the UI.
• Understanding of UI/UX design systems and establishing standards for the team
• Must be proficient at object-oriented design and working with modular systems.
• AWS Cloud services development experience including Docker, ECS, S3, Elasticache and Redis.
• Strong experience creating RESTful web APIs development.
• Maintains a high standard of code style, performance and testability.
• Strong unit testing, logging and benchmarking experience.
• Experience with working within a CI/CD pipeline scan/test/build/deploy processes.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
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