Principal Software Engineer (12321)

Business Unit Overview

Role & Responsibilities

• This is a senior individual contributor full-stack development position based in Mumbai. The selected person would be part of GES Tech – Analytics Dev team and would report to its Global IT Head. It is very high ownership position as the entire product suite is significantly delivered and managed out of Mumbai IT team. The role and responsibilities are as follows:
• Develop and maintain large, complex Analytics Product Suite. Contribute to development of features.
• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new UX solutions that meet business objectives.
• Work with the product team, stakeholders, and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.
• Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.
• Agile –participate in bi-weekly scrums
• Collaborate with various development and support teams across regions
• L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature.
• Problem ownership – from Incident to resolution. Root cause analysis & fixes for maintaining and improving system stability.
• Provide regular updates regarding status or progress made to managers and stakeholders.
• Gain understanding of various applications and systems being developed by peer groups.
• Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.
• Willing to learn Java with multi-threading and other new technologies/ tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.
• Mentor / guide other team members as required.

Mandatory Skill Set

• Excellent UX design skills
• Excellent technical skills in
• Excellent React.js
• Typescript or JavaScript/ES6
• HTML5, CSS3
• NPM, Webpack, Rollup
• REST
• Ag-grid, charting libraries
• MS SQL or similar DB, SQL
• UNIX
• DevOps – CI/CD, Gitlab, Nexus
• Experience of Test-Driven Development
• Experience in developing high performance high throughput applications. Strong skills in application performance management and event driven architecture
• Strong experience & knowhow in addressing Infosec challenges while delivering complex client facing apps
• Knowledge of Core java with multi-threading
• Excellent design skills with emphasis on clean code
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Quick learner
• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

Desired Skill Set

• Investment Banking domain - good understanding of capital markets
• Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges
• Python
• OMS / EMS front-end development experience

Position Specifications