Senior Application Developer

Mio Partners - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

About the position

MIO's IT team is seeking a Senior Application Developer to enhance the experience, efficiency, and performance of investment management and advisory applications. The role involves direct collaboration with various stakeholders, including business users and technology partners, to deliver comprehensive solutions in a Cloud environment. The successful candidate will engage in the full life cycle of system development projects, emphasizing productivity and code quality within an agile/scrum framework.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline (or strong experience with a less directly related degree)
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in developing large-scale Python-based UI applications using ReactJS
• Strong experience writing n-tier front- and back-office applications
• Sound knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure-related technologies
• Ability to lead a development team
• Strong client relationship management skills
• Excellent written and 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 system design intuition
• Hands-on AWS development experience preferred

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in financial services companies such as asset managers, hedge funds, or broker/dealers