Infrastructure Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Our system, Optimus, is the strategic risk platform for the Fixed Income business at the Company. This platform covers a number of technologies including distributed object stores, bitemporal data representation, asynchronous, memorized and highly distributed compute graph processing, embedded query languages and declarative reactive UIs, along with very robust developer workflow tools. The platform supports 1000+ internal developers; it operates under a single mono-repo that is ~30mm LOC; we support 300K+ tests; and it directly drives $4bn in revenue for the firm. Specifically, the SDLC team builds and manages the infrastructure supporting the complete development environment for the platform. This includes the CI/CD pipelines; the full IDE experience; the custom build system; all testing and deployment infrastructure, along with providing front-line support for all our users, with most of the infrastructure being written in Scala, and some Python. Given the scale of the platform, there is significant focus on engineering for stability and future growth, while also finding ways to continuously improve developer productivity, efficiency, and ultimately shorten time-to-market. The team’s goal is Straight Through Processing(STP) where the only manual steps are the ones that really require a human, such as code review and deeper analysis. To this end, we are building tools to perform data aggregation and pattern recognition, run tests quickly and more intelligently, recover from failures more efficiently, and display all this with a coherent UX. The role of AI is also rapidly accelerating, and we are starting to explore how we can leverage AI to help streamline much of this process as well. Job Responsibilities:
The candidate will be a core member of the SDLC team, collaborating to build new and expand existing infrastructure that is used to drive the entire developer workflow for the platform from front-to-back. This is a highly energetic and technical team. The candidate will be involved in debugging test and infrastructure related issues to help identify root causes. Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related IT Discipline or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of full-time experience with strong software development experience
• Expertise in computer programming.
• Hands-on development using Java, Python or Scala.
• Experience in the use of Application Release Automation tools, Build Automation Tools (Gradle, Ant) and IDE (IntelliJ)
• Exposure to Groovy is a plus
• Expertise in the use of GIT/Bitbucket administration with sound understanding of branching models/workflows, merge/conflict resolution etc.
• Strategic thinking, attention to detail along with excellent organizational, planning, strong communication and people management skills
• Some experience (preferable) on cloud technologies (AWS or Azure) and Docker
• Knowledge of traditional agile methodologies, including Scrum, and Kanban
• Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system
• Should have strong problem-solving and analytics skills
• Self-starter who is open to learning new/open source technologies