Syntax Data

Mid-Level/Senior Software Engineer

Syntax Data

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $110,000 - $125,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Designing, enhancing and maintaining large financial databases for use in web applications
  • Developing and maintaining database systems supporting the construction of performant, complex queries
  • Writing well-designed APIs and working with backend services
  • Creating flexible and intuitive client-facing JSON APIs for streaming data
  • Implementing dynamic front-end layouts to design specifications
  • Ensuring that mission critical systems and services operate smoothly by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex problems

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related discipline
  • Proficiency in relational database systems such as Postgresql
  • Familiarity with JavaScript and at least one modern front-end framework
  • An eye for code quality, familiarity with design patterns and best practices
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience with python and a dataframe library such as Polars or Pandas
  • Experience working in finance or financial technology
  • Prior professional experience working with and deploying to cloud environments such as AWS, DigitalOcean, or equivalent
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC framework
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and tooling such as Terraform or AWS CDK
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Hard Skills & Tools
PostgresqlJavaScriptPythonPolarsPandasRuby on RailsTerraformAWS CDKAPI developmentfront-end frameworks
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationindependenceagile methodologycode qualitydesign patternstechnical articulation
Certifications
bachelor’s degree in computer science