Developer Full Stack

Zillion Technologies - McLean, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

McLean, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Full Stack Developer role involves designing, developing, testing, and supporting applications within the financial modeling and research division. The position requires a strong focus on front-end technologies, with a commitment to best software development practices and collaboration within a team. The developer will work in a hybrid environment, primarily onsite in McLean, VA, and will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development tasks.

Responsibilities

• Model Application Development
• Design, develop, test, and support applications and services within the financial modeling and research division.
• Fix defects and address technical debts to ensure best software development practices are met.
• Write clean, robust, high-quality code following best practices and backed by automated unit and integration tests with full coverage.
• Coordinate with the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Assist with infrastructure upgrades and adoption of new technologies.
• Monitor system execution in production and use automated tools to detect problems.
• Proactively connect with technology and business to resolve operational problems.
• Implement automation requirements and other technical enhancements.
• Actively seek opportunities to continuously improve the quality of systems and processes.
• Promote industry-leading design practices for mission-critical applications.
• Perform designed or ad-hoc analysis to support capital markets trading desks.
• Clearly craft and articulate messages related to Finance and Technology to a broad range of audiences.
• Seek and design ways to automate tasks using Java or other programming languages.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on software development and programming experience.
• Strong background in developing scalable applications and services based on Java frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Kafka, and Netflix stack for microservices.
• Experience developing rich web UI based on Angular framework, jQuery, and Material design.
• Familiarity with REST API design, development, and documentation.
• Experience with build and integration tools, including Gradle, Jenkins, Git, and Docker.
• Strong acumen to learn business functions and features that need to be delivered.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with fundamental web front-end languages and frameworks.
• Familiarity with database technologies such as SQL Server, Sybase, Redis, MongoDB.
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and acceptance tests.

Benefits

• Opportunity for conversion after 6 months.
• Hybrid work schedule with onsite requirements.