Software Developer
Software Developer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Permanent
Job Description
Our client is a global FinTech firm, transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. They partner with banks, insurers, and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation and asset servicing.
Their services enable clients to provide best-in-class wealth management solutions to financial advisers, end-investors, and the workplace.
Today, they are responsible for over £700 billion in assets-under-administration, held by around 12 million customers of some of the worlds largest financial institutions, including Aviva, Barclays, BNZ, Generali, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, National Australia Bank (NAB), Quilter, Santander, UOB, Vanguard, and Zurich. In total, over 150 financial institutions across Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and North America and they employ around 3,000 people worldwide.
Developers are all-rounders who analyse required system changes, design databases, write complex financial business logic and create slick web
applications. They also work closely with analyst testers and other members of their project team to produce world class software. Analyst developers will be expected to learn all about our application, the business and the industry we operate in.
Analysis & Design:
Assist the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria
Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes
Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end. This will require a solid understanding
of the underlying business processes involved in and surrounding the change
Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design
requirements;
Help design and build APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core products and third-party vendor applications;
Development:
Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into hightransactional, high-availability, secure, working systems;
Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors;
Develop real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets;
Work closely with Solution Consultants and Analyst Testers to design and implement new functionality for major institutional customers
around the world.
Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements;
Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner.
Able to build medium complexity features end-end.
Continually develop an understanding of the business functionality of the platforms
Quality:
Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards;
Write automated unit tests for any newly created code; and
Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasnt regressed.
Perform code reviews for other developers, when required, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.
Must Have Skills:
Software engineering or Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience
3+ years of software development experience
Experience with Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C#, and SQL Server;
Experience with web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and, ReactJS;
Experience with SQL
Understanding of web services;
Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.
Nice to Have Skills:
Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions.
Familiarity with financial products and markets;