About the position
We are looking for a versatile generalist who thrives on a high degree of personal responsibility. You want to be involved in the whole process, all the way from requirements through implementation and deployment, and you enjoy working across the entire application instead of being stuck in a silo. As a member of our platform team, you’ll dive into our UI, API and back end to make financial portfolio management scalable and easy to use. You’ll work closely with our product management team and our users to gather requirements and design solutions. To solve the technical challenges, you’ll need to quickly wrap your head around complex user workflows. You’ll need a solid understanding of computing principles, strong analytical skills and good technical intuition. You’ll also need good communication skills to explain issues, potential solutions and tradeoffs in ways that make sense to a variety of stakeholders. Whenever you need to build internal tools or pick up new skills to achieve our goals, you’re able to roll up your sleeves and bootstrap quickly.
Responsibilities
- Gather requirements and design solutions in collaboration with product management and users.
- Dive into UI, API, and back end to enhance financial portfolio management.
- Quickly understand complex user workflows and technical challenges.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders about issues, solutions, and tradeoffs.
- Build internal tools and acquire new skills as needed.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production web applications.
- Computer Science degree.
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks.
- Solid SQL skills for working with complex data models and high-volume financial data.
- Understanding of multiprocessing and multithreading considerations.
- Competence working in a Linux environment, familiarity with common command-line utilities and Unix process management, comfortable with bash scripting.
