Sr. Software Engineer/ Developer

Location: Westlake, TX, us

Company Description

An American multinational financial services corporation. It is one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world! 

A company that is committed to innovation and being an industry leader by investing in technology.

We reward ambitious, passionate individuals with a work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration as well as encourages innovative ideas and fresh thinking. We recognize the value that employees’ individual differences can contribute to the bright and strong future of our company.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

• You will be a technical contributor and responsible for the development and maintenance of an Investing Desktop Platform
• You will performs technical and functional analysis of moderately complex scope
• You will develops proof of concepts and applications of advanced complex scope
• Provide technical guidance, train and mentor other team members.
• Providing 24 x 7 on-call support on a weekly rotating basis for applications in production
• Performs unit and integration testing.
• Responsible for all phases of the development lifecycle - requirements gathering, design, coding, testing and deployment of the functionality. 

Qualifications

• Experience in a SaaS and/or PaaS environment highly desirable
• Distributed system and design patterns experience desirable
• Expertise in one or more of the following:
  • JavaScript programming on both the client and the server (e.g. Bootstrap, jQuery UI, Node.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js etc.)
  • Using leading industry standard technologies: ESB, Web API, etc.
  • Web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript frameworks, e.g., MEAN stack)

• Experience in configuring client side development environments, build tools and tests utilizing modern client side programming concepts (e.g. AMD, TDD, CI, Grunt, Git, SASS)

The following are considered a plus, but not required:

• Expertise in making use of Cascading Style Sheets CSS3 features & CSS frameworks to implement responsive web design
• Expertise developing large scale rich UI applications on .NET platform (WPF or .NET MVC) 
• Expert Knowledge of .NET 4.0/4.5 framework, hands on experience with WPF & WCF framework
• Recent hands on, i.e., ability to demonstrate expert level software development experience
• .NET C#, Web Services
• Proficiency with both SQL and NoSQL database technologies (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB etc.)

Additional Information

6 Months Contract to Hire

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