Director of Engineering, Client Analytics & Experience

Ensures team processes are understood, followed, and improved. Responsible for developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation, continued growth, and positive employee engagement. Responsible for ensuring the delivery of business goals assigned to the team. 

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team to develop quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street 

• Responsible for ensuring a team’s success, growth, and output 

• Providing training, guidance, and mentorship to individuals on the team 

• Participating in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap 

• Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies 

• Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity 

• Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce 

• Develops corporate and/or organizational policies and authorizes their implementation. 

• Detailed knowledge of company allows for innovative concepts and promoting new ideas. 

• Provides direction to senior managers in various areas, groups, and/or operations. 

• Recognized as an influential leader.

• Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business. 

• Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas. 

• Requires in-depth knowledge of the functional area, business strategies, and the company’s goals. 

• Erroneous decisions will have a long-term effect on the company's success. 

• Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters. Influences policymaking. 

• Directs and controls the activities of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups or service areas through senior managers who have overall responsibility for the successful operation of those assigned areas.

Requirements:   

• Over 5 years of experience in Front-End development 

• Over 10 years of professional experience in software development, including 2+ years in a leadership role.

• 5+ years of experience in Fintech or Capital Markets, with a strong understanding of Private Markets preferred.

• Well-versed in best practices of professional software engineering throughout the entire software development life cycle.

• Experienced in providing technical guidance and feedback on architecture, code reviews, and best practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proficient in contributing to software design documentation, including presentations and sequence diagrams.

• Ability to clearly present complex technical designs in a straightforward manner.

• Experienced in working with both relational and NoSQL databases.

• Background in building highly scalable distributed software systems.

• Professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Successfully managed projects from requirements scoping through to launch.

Desired Experience or Skills:                                               

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)

• Experience in full system design and architecture

• Experience developing and designing a public facing API

• Experience with database scaling and design