Backend Developer

Backend Web Developer

 Our client operates from 18 cities across 13 countries. Our investment personnel manage US $247 billion across a wide range of global, regional and country-specific strategies - both traditional and alternative - in listed equity and fixed income. At Lazard Asset Management, we pride ourselves in balancing the feel of a small firm with the scale of a large global organization. Our entrepreneurial culture and flat management structure foster an environment in which good ideas can take flight, no matter where they come from.

Our client is looking for an innovative software engineer to join our IT department.  This individual will be working on the systems that support the global sales and marketing organization.  This role will be responsible for building and supporting the backend services and API’s used in all of the applications. This role requires a highly motivated, organized and experienced developer with pride of ownership reflected through clean design, code quality and a disciplined software development approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement middle-tier web applications, and RESTful services.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic.
• Support existing software with quick troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Be part of an empowered team following agile methodologies.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 5+ year’s applications development experience with full-stack development and agile frameworks.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and service-oriented design.
• Work effectively both as a contributing team member and independently.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative problem solving with the ability to present multiple solutions and potential side effects.
• Fast paced programming mentality with quick turnaround.

Required Skills:

• Expertise with API creation and RESTful services.
• Expertise developing backend server components using Python, NodeJS, C#
• Expertise building micro service architecture.
• Experiencebuilding and supporting websites using CMS systems (Tridion, Drupal, AEM)
• Experience and proficiency with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase).
• Experience and proficiency with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra).

Desired Skills:

• Experience running services on container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud architecture experience with a major cloud provider.
• Experience with Jira.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or TeamCity.
• Experience with CRM systems especially Salesforce is a plus.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality. 

What You’ll do:

• Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
• Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
• Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
• Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
• Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
• Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
• Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
• Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
• Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
• Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
• Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
• Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables 
• Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
• Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
• Write Unit tests and documentation 

What You Have:

• 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
• Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
• Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
• Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok) 
• Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
• Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
• Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
• Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
• Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
• Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
• Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
• Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
• Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills

• Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
• Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

• Extremely effective, self-driven builder
• 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity

• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.