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Senior Software Engineer (Finance)



Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack based out of our New York or Chicago office.

Fitch Group Technology has a number of agile teams that deliver world-class innovative solutions to Fitch Group internal and external customers. This position will be within one of our agile teams delivering software products for our Sustainable Fitch business.

What We Offer:

In this position, you will have the opportunity to be a part of an exceptionally talented, bright, and driven team, and apply your skills in implementing products for the Sustainable Fitch business. And you will have fun doing it! Our technology stack is modern - cloud based, containerized, serverless and microservices oriented. You will play a key role in implementing tools and processes that aim to improve the quality of our end-to-end code while creating a more efficient and sustainable workflow for our customers. You will work in a hybrid (in-office / Work from Home) arrangement, in a collaborative and supportive work environment where your ideas and contributions are valued with a focus on achievable improvements that get used every day.

We'll Count on You To:

  • Demonstrate proficiency in full-stack technologies for enterprise-scale websites and applications.
  • Work as part of an agile team in design, development, debugging, and deployment efforts while addressing security, cross-browser and cross-platform expectations and concerns.
  • Understand the importance of design best practices, provide effective translation to code artifacts and implement appropriate integration approach for API/data layer.
  • Partner with Product Owner and stakeholders to understand business needs, define and develop applications/ architecture, design, review, implement and optimize Engineering processes.
  • Build data expertise and a deep understanding of business domain knowledge and own data quality for allocated areas of ownership
  • Maintain and enhance microservices based components for the application suite.
  • Recommend, create and maintain development best practices and guidelines to be used across various applications.
  • Write automated unit, integration, performance and visual regression test cases.
  • Integrate test case execution with the CI/CD pipeline to better align with the DevSecOps strategy.
  • Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices especially on commits, versioning and dependency management.

What You Need to Have:

  • 5+ years of experience designing and developing distributed application architecture of moderate-to-high complexity.
  • 3+ years of experience in designing and developing scalable web applications using modern front-end frameworks such as React/Vue/Angular.
  • 5+ years of experience with Java and associated open-source technologies, such as Spring Boot.
  • 3+ years of experience in relational (e.g. Oracle/Postgres).
  • Experience in creating modern applications using Microservices-based architecture.
  • Expertise in modern package management, build and test frameworks (e.g. NPM, Yarn, Webpack, Jest, Enzyme, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Wraith).
  • Experience with build and deployment pipelines including frontend build and deployment using GIT, npm and Grunt.
  • Experience working in high-performance teams using Agile methodologies.
  • Experience working in teams with a heavy emphasis on Security, Automation and Quality (DevSecOps).
  • Passion for emerging technologies and innovation.
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

  • Exposure to native AWS data technologies, ETL, Orchestration and analytics such as AWS Glue, Athena, S3, Lambda, Glue, EMR Spark, Kafka, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, etc.
  • Exposure to AWS infrastructure - EC2 instances, S3 storage, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudFormation and Networking (VPC, subnets, security groups) etc. Exposure to containerization and container orchestration.
  • Exposure to Atlassian toolkits such as Bamboo, BitBucket, JIRA and Confluence.

Why Fitch?

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone.

Every team member is essential to our business and each perspective is critical to our success. We embrace a diverse culture that encourages a free exchange of ideas, guaranteeing your voice will be heard and your work will have an impact, regardless of seniority.

We are building incredible things at Fitch and we invite you to join us on our journey.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning.

For more information please visit our websites:

www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

FOR NEW YORK ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $115,000 and $140,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch's total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning.

For more information please visit our websites:

www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com

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