Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Smartleaf is a Boston-based investment portfolio rebalancing service handling over $90 billion in assets. They are seeking a Software Engineer to own problems end to end and ensure the correctness of complex data models while working closely with product management and users to design effective solutions.
Responsibilities
- Make sure the right things happen in the right order, and that edge cases are handled correctly so that financial advisors can trust what they’re seeing
- Spend time figuring out what correctness means when multiple actions hit a portfolio at once
- Distill complexity into a clear experience that allows financial advisors to understand the impact of their choices and present the best possible information to their clients
- Work closely with the product management team and users to gather requirements and design solutions
- Participate in the support rotation and see firsthand how users are interacting with the system
- Explain issues, potential solutions, and tradeoffs in ways that make sense to a variety of stakeholders
- Build internal tools or pick up new skills to achieve goals
Skills
- 2-6+ years of experience building production web applications
- Demonstrated ability to reason about systems with complex domain logic and concurrent, order-sensitive state
- Strong understanding of computing fundamentals, particularly multiprocessing and multithreading considerations
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks
- Strong SQL skills: comfortable writing complex multi-table queries, understanding query plans, and reasoning about data integrity
- 1+ years of daily experience working in a Linux environment: strong familiarity with common command-line utilities and Unix process management; comfortable with bash scripting
- Are able to dive into unfamiliar codebases and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact
- Enjoy taking a cloud of complex problems and making them clear and straightforward
Company Overview
Simartleaf is a financial service business that offers portfolio management solutions. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.smartleaf.com/.