Full stack developer / Postgres specialist
John Laing <[email protected]>
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We are a diversified fixed income fund with $2.4 billion of AUM. We are searching for a developer with 3 to 5 years of experience designing and implementing software. The candidate will support all internal data infrastructure, interacting with areas including middle office, accounting, risk, trading, and investor relations. Qualifications: You must have: * An interest in fixed income investments and a demonstrated capacity to pick things up quickly. * Experience with designing and administering large databases, including performance optimization. We use PostgreSQL. * Experience with SQL programming in creation and optimization of stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions. * Experience with scripting languages. We primarily use Bash, R, and Ruby. * A high level of comfort with the command line. Our core systems run on Debian Linux. * Habits conducive to working in a multi-developer environment, like source control and bug tracking tools. We use Git and JIRA for these, respectively. * Experience developing web software Nice to have: * Knowledge of a broad range of fixed income products * Experience with financial applications like Bloomberg, Geneva, and RiskMetrics * Experience with an object-oriented language like C++ or Java * Comfortable developing advanced web applications using Ruby on Rails * Understanding of modern UI principles, frameworks and unit testing libraries * Understanding of performance best-practices using caching and compression technologies