Senior Software Engineer INTL FCStone
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Position Purpose:

As an experienced Software Engineer, your mission is to help guide our global team of technologists toward creating next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run. Assist teams to the appropriate technical solution, apply software development skills to problems to resolve performance issues; advise and develop solutions to maintain and enhance performance with in new and existing projects. An understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development-such as Agile frameworks will be key.

Primary Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

* Work with a global team of highly motivated platform engineers and software developers
* Execute the full software product lifecycle: analysis, technical design, development, testing, release, support
* Contribute to, and eventually lead, software engineering and re-engineering projects
* Collaborate with engineers from other platform teams to design and implement new features
* Work directly with various senior stakeholder across our Technology Division and their Business sponsors.
* Familiarity with one or many spaces within Financial Organizations
* Order Management, Electronic Trading and Client Connectivity Systems
* Data Lake/Warehousing
* Pricing, Risk and Booking Systems


* Engage in production troubleshooting

Job Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
* 8+ years of experience developing software in a professional environment (preferably financial services but not required)
* 5 years of hands on Data Driven Enterprise Application development, preferable in financial industry
* Strong understanding of Enterprise architecture patterns, Object Oriented & Service Oriented principles, design patterns, industry best practices
* Foundational knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance.
* Proficiency in programming in Java, C# or Python and willingness to learn and adopt new languages as necessary
* Experience in database technology like MSSQL and one of key value and document databases like MongoDb, Dynamo Db, Casandra.
* Exposure to containers, microservices, distributed systems architecture, orchestrators and cloud computing.
* Comfortable with core programming concepts and techniques (e.g. concurrency, memory management)
* Enjoys working with algorithms and data structures (e.g. trees, hash maps, queues)
* Data Analytics and Data Science experience will be a plus.
* Good sense of user interaction and usability design to provide an intuitive, seamless end user experience.
* Excellent communications skills and the ability to work with subject matter expert to extract critical business concepts.
* Ability to work and potentially lead in an Agile methodology environment.

Physical requirements/Working conditions:

* Climate controlled office environment
* Minimal physical requirements other than occasional light lifting of boxed materials • Dynamic, time-sensitive, trade room environment
* Travel as needed

We encourage applicants of all ages and experience, as we do not discriminate on the basis of the applicant's age.