Software Engineer - Scala
Development · Chicago, Illinois
Software Engineer – Scala

Our client is an investor-backed, exciting growth stage FinTech company servicing hundreds of thousands of traders by providing award winning software and brokerage services. We are building products and services which empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world’s leading financial markets. With locations in Chicago and Denver, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, comfortable and fun. We are currently accepting applications for Software Engineer – Scala to join our growing team!

About You:
As a Software Engineer, you will be hands-on and technically fluent, with a strong background in Scala Programming. You will work with both internal and external product teams to provide world-class products and services in support of our cloud-based order routing and market data distribution service. This is a 'DevOps' position, responsible for the full-stack engineering and support of products that support our hybrid cloud capabilities for our high-performance trade infrastructure.

In this role, you will:

• Design and deploy dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable systems on the cloud infrastructure, with a focus towards high performance and low latency order routing and market data systems.
• Partner with key stakeholders as a platform champion for cloud-native systems and coach on how to use platform capabilities effectively through appropriate venues.
• Gather business and technical requirements and specify solutions for projects that consolidate data management under a firm-wide structure.
• Manage a Google Cloud environment, working with various teams to unify our cloud engineering efforts.
• Perform programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Create, improve, and fully automate CI/CD development cycles.
• Provide recommendations and create demonstration examples of hybrid cloud technology solutions for data engineering.
• Investigate emerging cloud technologies and provide recommendations on which Cloud architecture best addresses our changing needs.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; post-graduate education in data science, data analytics, and/or data engineering preferred.
• 3+ years of experience working with Google Cloud Platform, with exposure to other cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services.
• 3+ years of experience with Scala/Java to design and develop distributed, high-performance, and high-availability services.
• 3+ years of experience using SQL and NoSQL databases and utilization of key/value pair cache systems.
• 3+ years of experience with distributed data streaming technologies, such as Akka.
• Proficient with micro-service design patterns utilizing containerization and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Familiar with JavaScript for front-end development web app development and API structures.
• Able to implement systems with a security-first mindset, adhering to firm-wide security policies and best practice implementations; proficiency with cloud-based security tools such as IAM and KMS is required.
• Working knowledge of networking in hybrid cloud environments, including google load balancer.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve production problems while making sensible decisions in times of stress.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills.

Perks and Benefits:

• 15 days PTO per year
• 7 paid holidays annually
• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
• 401k with Company Match
• Life and Disability Insurance covered 100%
• Flexible Spending Account for Transit and Parking

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

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