Re: Full stack developer / Postgres specialist

One crucial detail: this role is located in New York.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, John Laing <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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