Lead Software Engineer at Parametric

At Parametric, we offer competitive salaries, generous benefits and opportunities for growth and development. We invite you to explore our available job opportunities listed below and look forward to having you become a part of our continued success!

General Description

The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for design, development, and integration of various new and existing technology solutions that supports various aspects of our Investment management processes.

This role will require extensive interaction and communication, requirements gathering across various other teams in the organization and implementation leveraging best in class technologies. The candidate will be well versed in at least 1 high level object orient programming languages, multi year cloud experience preferably in AWS and 8+ years of work experience in software engineering space and 3+ years of work experience leading projects or a small team. Additional experience in event based architectures and messaging platforms like Kafka is a must. Financial services experience especially in asset management or trading is desired.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our technology best practices
  • Design and develop cloud native (AWS) micro-services with primary focus on correctness and performance
  • Lead individual sub-projects end to end within the microservices ecosystem
  • Integrate with other services in the ecosystem or public API's and databases
  • Apply best in class engineering principles, optimized algorithms and data structure techniques
  • Create unit/integration/functional tests
  • Conduct code reviews of other developers and participate in git merge reviews
  • Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
  • Research new cloud apps/open source technologies and incorporate in existing services/API's
  • Mentor other developers (this is not a direct management position)

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on Java/OOP development experience with primary focus on backend systems
  • 3+ years experience leading projects or a small team
  • Experience in event based architectures and messaging platforms like Kafka is a must
  • Experience architecting projects integrating across systems
  • Understanding of micro-services architecture/containerization
  • Proven experience with test driven development
  • Familiarity with GIT version control system
  • Working experience with agile development
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools like Maven or Gradle
  • Hands-on experience with RDBMS and/or NoSql databases like DynamoDB/Redis
  • Effective communication skills with business users and other developers.
  • Knowledge of cloud services like AWS/Azure is a plus
  • Experience with Javascript/React development is a plus
  • Multi-threading programming is a plus
  • Experience with programming languages like Python/C/C++ on Linux environment is a plus
  • Knowledge of distributed systems like Apache Cassandra is a plus
  • Financial services, especially asset management industry experience is a plus

Parametric is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a work environment that is free of discrimination and harassment.  It does not discriminate against applicants or employees with respect to any terms or conditions of employment on account of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability (actual or perceived), medical condition including genetic characteristics, marital status, citizenship status, military service, gender, gender identity or express, registered domestic partner status, domestic violence victim status, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.  Parametric also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that a person has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.  This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of Parametric, and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of Parametric, including supervisors and co-workers.  All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principles of equal employment opportunity.

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Company:ParametricLocation:Boston - Massachusetts - United StatesJob Types:Full TimePost Date:October 26, 2021Valid Through:November 25, 2021