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.

We are looking for a PHP Developer with knowledge of the laravel framework and a minimum of 2+ years of work experience in developing PHP-based applications for the specified designs and standards.

* Developing web solutions in PHP/Laravel on the LAMP stack

* Understanding the eCommerce domain and working in close proximity with the Business Owners to discuss requirements and quickly prototype business ideas into applications

* Make the best use of the ORM capability of Laravel and develop project solutions that are independent of the hosting environment and underlying database

* Integrations with 3rd party tools and services

* Troubleshooting and resolution of website performance issues

* Hands-on experience in Core PHP, Laravel, HTML, CSS

* Must be capable to handle projects alone.

* Should have handled projects in Agile methodology

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

• Creating C#.NET windows Desktop (WPF) applications to meet project specifications
• Must have experience in windows UI
• Co-ordinating design, development, testing, debugging and implementation of .NET projects
• Database Interaction (MongoDB Server)
• Looking for professional who have experience with C#
• .Net, web Api & knowledge of web-based framework will be preferred.
• Good understanding on requirements gathering and detail orientation.
• Strong understanding on UI best practice and usability concepts.
• Hands on experience on user control and custom controls.

Mandatory Key Skills: C# , windows UI, Windows application development (WPF), strong windows UI development skills with usability understanding.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience using C#, windows UI
• Experience with Custom Windows UI component library will be preferred.
• Candidate with knowledge of, web-based framework will be preferred (plus point)
• Implementation of typical User-Interface module and business logic component in the project using C#
• Good communication skills are needed.

Keypoints to be noted:

Must have knowledge/experience of below:

C#

• Background worker and task(for running any process/task backend without interruoting/hanging UI)
• Utilize common/globalmethods
• Async/sync methods

WPF

• Create custom/user control(MUST)

• 5+ years experience
• Previously managed a team
• Built & managed backend systems from scratch previously.
• Lead the core backend engineering team, including mentoring, coaching, architecture, devops, code review and software infrastructure
• Should be more proficient with Django.
• Work with the executive team to shape and execute the product roadmap
• Direct our team environment to achieve sprint deliverables and acceptance criteria
• Design and monitor metrics to assess product and infrastructure performance
• Hire, build and shape the team