Back-End Software Engineer (Contractor)

Dimensional Fund Advisors•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer scalable, innovative, and research-driven solutions to improve our client’s financial lives. Software Engineers at Dimensional participate in the design and development of software solutions across an array of domains from Research and Investments to Sales and Marketing; collaboratively developing MVPs to test their ideas and rapidly iterate with constant feedback from users. Dimensional invests heavily in developer tools, platforms, paradigms and experience enabling teams to provide modern solutions that contribute profoundly to our client’s success. We are looking for a Senior Back-End Software Engineer to join our team and translate our customers’ goals into working software from automated configurations to model definitions, and calculation APIs. The most important qualifications are a passion for quality software and enthusiasm for learning new technologies and approaches.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
6+ years of software development experience in a professional and/or academic setting
Experience with Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or equivalent dynamic languages
Experience with C#, Java, C/C++, Typescript, or equivalent static languages
Experience with any of the following: data engineering, web/mobile application development, systems/security software development

Nice To Haves

Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
Ability to write in English fluently and idiomatically
Advanced degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field
Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
Financial services industry experience
Experience with any of the following: Redis, Postgresql, MongoDB, SQLServer
Airflow, Kafka, AWS, serverless/microservice architecture
TDD, BDD, Numpy/Scipy/Pandas, React, Angular, Vue.js, Node, Ansible

Responsibilities

Understand the users’ needs and solve problems like complex calculation engines in an ETL pipeline, database design, API and microservice design and engineering.
Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our clients
Collaborate with front-end engineers on the design of solutions and APIs
Perform software and data architecture and design
Develop complex software solutions using back-end technologies
Demonstrate and mentor software engineering best practices and participate in code reviews
Develop configurations and automations to enable testing, infrastructure and deployments