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Software Engineer
Locations: London Essex Hybrid
The Opportunity
We are seeking several experienced and highly skilled Software Engineers to join our team of innovative and talented engineers. This is to join an exciting new division of SS&C Technologies working in our engineering group to enhance and support new and existing products. As a senior software engineer youll promotegood designand development practices ensure code quality across the team andparticipatein defining technology strategy occasionally leading innovation or software design initiatives.
What You Will Get To Do:
- Lead collaboration within your engineering team QA and Productfacilitatingdiscussions and ensuring effective communication.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers guiding technical approaches design patterns and best practices.
- Conduct peer reviews of code promoting engineering excellence andmaintaininghigh code quality standards across the team.
- Work closely with tech leads engineers testers and auxiliary personnel to deliver cohesive solutions.
- Participate in daily Stand-Ups change analysis sessions and technical presentations.
- Collaborate across the organisation seeking advice and gaining buy-in on proposals and designs.
Feature Design and Implementation
- Own feature design and implementation end-to-end ensuring solutions are robust scalable and maintainable.
- Develop new features ata high levelof quality delivering thoroughly tested and production-ready code.
- Design document and communicate system solutions ensuring a good balance of time quality cost and performance.
- Coordinate complex multi-part tasks breaking down technical challenges into manageable components.
- Champion modern software development practices including Test Driven Development continuous integration and deployment.
Code Quality and Technical Excellence
- Ensure code quality across the team through effective code reviews technical guidance and setting standards.
- Understand and actively promote the reduction of technical debt within your product area.
- Take ownership of specific initiatives in innovation or technical debt reduction.
- Provide input as necessary to tool and environment adoption guidance.
- Promotegood designand development practices within your teamestablishingpatterns for maintainability and scalability.
Service and Support
- Join the engineering out-of-hours on-call rota (typically once every 3-4 weeks) once suitably skilled and appropriately trained.
- Support incident investigation and resolution contributing to root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.
Business and Domain Knowledge
- Continuously develop your business domain knowledge and understanding of the mutual funds industry.
- Contextualise your technical work for less technical members of the organisation bridging the gap between engineering and business teams.
- Contribute to technical strategy discussions bringing practical insights from hands-on development experience.
What You Will Bring:
Deep technicalexpertisein:
- C#.NET Core and relatedopen sourcetechnologies
- Object Orientation SOA and related design patterns
- Modern database systems (Microsoft SQL Server relational databasedesignand SQL)
- Front-end technologies including HTML CSS and JavaScript
- Web API design and implementation concurrency asynchrony and parallelism
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices: agile methodologies version control code reviews continuous integration.
- Proven experience with Test Driven Development - Unit Testing frameworks mocking frameworks and patterns for testability.
- Experience in the mutual funds industry or related financial services sectors.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide other engineers.
Desirableexperience
- Experience withTypeScript in commercial environments
- SPAs and responsive web development using Angular
- Enterprise messaging systems ( Service Bus)
- Cloud platforms preferably Microsoft Azure
- Containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Blockchain development and associated Cryptographic concepts
- Knowledge of mutual fund trading settlement reconciliation lifecyclemanagementand regulation within the context of the distributor/platform Transfer Agent (TA) and fund/asset management industry.
Person Specification
- Natural Leader:Leads by example within teamsfacilitatingeffective communication and driving collaborative problem-solving.
- Mentor and Guide:Passionate about developing others providing clear direction and support to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Quality-Focused:Committed to delivering high-quality maintainable code and driving engineering excellence across the team.
- Excellent Communicator:Able to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
- Proactive and Ownership-Minded:Takes initiative inidentifyingand addressing technical challenges owning features from conception to production.
- Team Player:Thrives on teamwork and collaboration contributing positively to team dynamics and fostering an inclusive environment.
- Business-Minded:Understands the importance of aligning technical decisions with businessobjectivesand delivering value to the end investor.
- Passionate About Technology:Demonstratesgenuine enthusiasm for software engineering continuous learning and staying current with industry developments.
- Attention to Detail:Ensures thoroughness in implementation testing and documentation.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
- Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
- Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On Team-Customised throughout your career
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.