Senior Application Developer (Python-based UI applications using ReactJS)

Garrison Associates - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

501-1,000 employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior Application Developer will be responsible for developing and maintaining Python-based UI applications using ReactJS for investment management and advisory applications. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to gather requirements, improve application architecture, and enhance development processes within a cloud environment. The successful candidate will work closely with business users, project managers, and other IT teams to deliver high-quality solutions and support the full life cycle of system development projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain new and existing applications for use by our investment management and advisory teams
• Collaborate with end users and other stakeholders to understand and implement business requirements
• Help shape the future of our application architecture and technology stack
• Raise the bar on our development capabilities and processes
• Synthesize requirements gathered from multiple teams inside and outside IT and suggest creative solutions
• Organize with end users, business analysts, and other architects and developers following a scrum methodology
• Collaborate in standardizing the development processes, including technology selection, deployment steps, code reviews, and IT tools

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or other related discipline
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in developing large-scale Python-based UI applications using ReactJS
• Ability to lead a development team
• Strong client relationship management skills and excellent written/verbal communication skills
• Formal problem-solving and/or analytical training/experience
• Proponent of software development best practices, including unit, functional, and integration testing
• Experience in profiling and optimizing code for performance
• Ability to write high-performing SQL queries, procs, tables, and views
• Experience with tools/frameworks such as Kafka, Redis, and Elastic Search
• Practical understanding of design patterns and a good intuition for system design
• Hands-on AWS development experience preferred

Nice-to-haves

• Strong technology qualifications outside of financial services

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Flexible scheduling
• Paid holidays
• Professional development opportunities