Senior Software Engineer, Back-end Java/go

About us @Symphony

We’ve spent the last 10 years building the financial markets largest, most trusted communication network. Over 500 market participants across the buy-side, sell-side, securities servicing, and beyond. Over half a million users from trading desks to operations and custody teams interacting securely and in real-time on Symphony.

But that was only chapter one. We’re now using our technology foundation to accelerate far beyond secure collaboration to become the standard connective layer that enables more efficient and automated workflows across the industry to bring the future to financial markets.

The opportunity and our ambition are huge. But we need passionate, dedicated individuals to get there. At Symphony we work hard and fast. Our unique blend of technology and financial services makes it an environment you won't get elsewhere.

Role Description:

As a Software Engineer at Symphony, you will be contributing to developing and maintaining Symphony microservices in a team that is responsible for delivering events in real time in the Symphony ecosystem.
A firm grasp of cloud architecture is required, specifically related to scalability, distributed systems, event streaming and databases. The position also requires solid understanding of devops model; in particular CI/CD, Gitops approach.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, development, deployment, and maintenance in an agile environment.
• Design, implement, and maintain software applications using Golang. Good knowledge in Java would also be appreciated.
• Collaborate actively with others teams within Symphony
• Build and support automation and tooling required to build, deploy and operate the Symphony deliverables in a public cloud environment following a Gitops approach.
• Support the infrastructure needs by collaborating with site reliability engineers.
• Participate constructively and collaboratively in backend design and code reviews.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science and 3+ years’ experience in software development of microservices (Java server-side development and/or Golang)
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture
• Knowledge of database systems; ideally Redis. 
• Experience working with Kafka would be appreciated 
• Knowledge about kubernetes and helm is a strong asset
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, highly collaborative and agile global environment
• Strong problem solving skills and good understanding of the best practices for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring software.
• Ability to work in a production environment with reliability constraints.
• Ability to learn new stack and new tooling

Compensation:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus Plan
• Benefits and Perks vary based on location.

Benefits and Perks:

• Regional specific competitive benefits
• Build your own Benefits (BYOB) perk
• Many other fun and exciting benefits and activities!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 

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