About us @Symphony
We've spent the last 8 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 interact 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.
About the role:
At Symphony, we're on a mission to help people communicate, collaborate and enjoy their work. Our secure messaging and meetings platform is changing the way people do business in information sensitive industries. Our customers are fast-paced, and rely on Symphony to keep up.
Symphony is a platform that provides end-to-end secure messaging. Weʼre looking for a motivated, productive, team- oriented, and hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join one of our engineering Teams.
What you will do:
- Design and build scalable, distributed, server-side Java Enterprise software applications and microservices
- Work on an Agile Scrum team to effectively define and scope backlog items and identify risks and interdependencies early
- Conduct code reviews and give guidance to development teams
- Drive and perform the best engineering practices, maintaining a high bar for quality and craftsmanship
Your experience and background:
- Proven experience crafting and implementing high-performance, horizontally scalable, server-side distributed systems in Java
- Technical excellence in Java technologies and exposure to Spring Boot
- Deep familiarity with design patterns & multi-threaded programming
- Solid understanding of internet technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript)
- Knowledge of web services, REST, JSON
- Ability to perform clean RESTful API design and understand the impact of the design on client side application code
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or related practical experience
As a bonus, it would be great if you had:
- Passion and demonstrated experience in developing software in a large-scale micro-service system
- Knowledge of Linux system implications and how different JVM implementations/versions work in these environments
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and container runtimes (e.g. Docker)
- Tracing and logging systems experience to diagnose production problems quickly
- Experience building business-critical, large-scale systems with extreme availability
- Public cloud, preferably Amazon AWS (or GCP) experience
- Exposure to continuous delivery pipelines
- Exposure to building business-critical, large-scale systems with extreme availability
- Experience with public cloud including Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure
- BS/BA/MS/ PhD with a strong demonstrable experience or related experience
Symphony technology stack:
Here's what we use: Java J2EE, Linux (Centos 7), Amazon AWS (EC2), Google Cloud, MongoDB / HBase, SaltStack, JavaScript, Jenkins, Docker, Tomcat, Hazelcast, Google PubSub, Spring Boot, Rest Assured, DynamoDB, Yeoman, Terraform and more
What you get in return:
Competitive salary
A bonus plan
Regional specific competitive benefits (vary based on location)
Build your own Benefits (BYOB) perk
Fully stocked kitchen and catered or reimbursed lunches
Many other fun and exciting benefits and activities!
Symphony commitment to diversity and inclusion
We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We 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.
Symphony reserves the right of ownership for all unsolicited resumes submitted for this requisition and is not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Symphony participates in E-Verify.
