Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Reports to:     Engineering Manager – Data Delivery

Company:       StoneX

Position Purpose: StoneX Storefront offers our internal and external customers an easy way to consume data and services from our backend applications. Storefront is an API gateway, an API management tool between a customer and a collection of backend services and acts as a reverse proxy to accept all application programming interface (API) calls, aggregate the services required to fulfill them, and return the appropriate result.    

Primary Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards enhancing the user/customer experience on StoreFront portal by simplifying the onboarding the process for new customers.
• Enhancement of existing storefront APIs in terms of any bug fixes, any meaningful modifications requested by users, adding useful metrics collection info, etc.
• Onboarding of new products / APIs while ensuring that the application team adhere to quality standard with respect to documentation/ swagger, etc.
• Improve the test coverage in the existing code base while ensuring more than 90% coverage in new code.
• Optimization of the code base/repos by using the highest design and coding standards.
• Be an active participant in all the agile ceremonies – Sprint planning, Sprint grooming, retros and the daily standups.
• Make sure that the jiras created are of the highest quality and contain sufficient information for both development and testing teams.
• Be a mentor to the junior developers and train them in the best coding/design practices. Review the code and pull requests thoroughly before approvals.
• Streamline the devops process such that the pipelines are all working as intended. Shorten the release cycle for releases to production.
• Improve the monitorability of the application and come up with meaningful data that must be captured as part of metrics.

Job Requirements:

• 6-8 years of work experience post completion of bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related majors.
• Strong Hands-on experience in programing and debugging in C# / .Net and any javascript frameworks (React highly preferred).
• Strong knowledge on microservices design patterns, domain driven design, etc.
• Experience on K8s and containerization. Experience on Azure is a huge plus.
• Strong understanding of devops principles.
• Strong understanding of core principles of OO design and their application within a highly scaled distributed architecture.
• Critical thinking: the ability to track down complex engineering issues, evaluate different algorithmic approaches to solve problems.
• Good Communication skills and willing to learn new tools and technologies
• Strong work ethic and emphasis on attention to details
• Must be a complete team player.
• Knowledge of the financial markets is preferred.

Class:  Full-time, exempt