Software Engineer

Description:
**Hybrid | Westlake, TX**
Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers by building the best-in-class digital experience that helps them in financial planning, investing, and retirement solutions? Our chapter comprises teams that work on desktop applications and platforms like Active Trader Pro®. We're looking for product-aware engineers who are passionate, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help us on our mission to deliver the best user experience to our customers.
Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $64 - $69 / hr. w2
Responsibilities:
As a desktop developer, you will help us build the desktop user experience and the underlying platforms needed to support our digital presence. You'll work on building end to end features as part of our autonomous, cross functional teams. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional teams. You'll have the opportunity to contribute ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn. We're looking for highly motivated individuals who work well in a collaborative, iterative, and fast-paced environment.
Experience Requirements:
The Expertise We're Looking For

• You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across complex and rapidly-changing landscapes by staying on top of latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge.
• Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us solve real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You'll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and creating rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.
• Are comfortable to be a self-starter , who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask "Why" and "What if"?
• Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks
• Care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices , tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles
• Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec.
• Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone's job.
• Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly.
• Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions.

The Skills You Bring

• Strong knowledge of HTTP based APIs, Networking and how the internet works.
• Strong .Net/C# based applications expertise desired
• Strong experience with application frameworks
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub repository/pipelines & tools
• Experience with performance tuning & memory utilization of desktop applications
• Comfortable with Visual Design & Rapid Prototyping
• Expert at one IDE of choice (Visual Studio, WebStorm)
• Unit testing & Automation Tools/Frameworks (MS Unit, NUnit, xUnit)
• API Design & Development, MicroServices Architecture.
• DevOps, Automated Testing and Continuous Delivery