App. Developer .NET – 22718AG

LIS, a Woman Owned Small Business, was founded in 1994 as an advanced innovative language service provider. Since then we have organically expanded into Cyber Security, Intelligence and Information Technology to support our customers with their rapidly Evolving global enterprise-wide requirements.

Our mission is to provide our customers with strategic, dynamic and Innovative solutions. Versatility, Agility and Scalability are the Defining principles that drive our company to deliver “Effective Strategies for Successful Solutions” for both our government and Industry partners.

****Only applicants eligible to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship should apply.****

Our client is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Our client provides a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology works as a strategic partner with our client’s business units and the world’s leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Our client’s sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients’ businesses and to our own.

Our client’s Enterprise Application Infrastructure (EAI) is a horizontal technology group that develops reusable solutions, libraries and frameworks used in systems throughout the Firm. We also provide technical expertise in all aspects of computing in the form of consultation and design advice to development teams. This means that the team requires developers with strong technical skills and the experience to understand the implications of their design decisions and good understanding of current best practices in application architecture, software design and code development. Specific business knowledge is less important (as we work with many disparate groups), but good grounding in applied mathematics would be very useful on the parts of the projects that require development or application of data analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop platform components that enable and simplify Cloud-aware patterns for application developers.
• Design and develop supporting APIs and libraries .
• Collaborate and brainstorm with members of the team to ensure that common strategic goals are met.
• Rapidly prototype and iteratively refine platform level capabilities.
• Develop enhanced unit, integration and performance testing automation to verify the quality of our platforms.
• Support development teams that use our platforms, improving developer experience from feedback .
• Deploy enterprise-level updates to the platform .
• Write technical documentation, update our internal site to better socialize our products and capabilities.
• Years of Experience: 8+ years

Skills Required:

• Detailed understanding of .Net fundamentals including Memory management, Threads, Assemblies, Delegates, Lambdas
• Understand .Net advanced concepts including LINQ, Tasks, Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming techniques.
• Understand .Net web service application concepts including ASP .Net, WebApi, Asp MVC, WCF, DataServices and OData.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design patterns and principles.
• Fluent in C# and JavaScript.
• Understand Agile development practices.
• Familiarity working with Linux systems
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to intuitively combine traditional techniques and cutting-edge research to develop novel abstractions
• Good technical documentation skills .
• 2-5 years of enterprise application development experience

Skills Desired:

• Understanding of Functional programming patterns and principles .
• Understand Windows Forms, WPF and UWP desktop UI technologies .
• Understanding browser applications including AngularJS, Node.js, jQuery etc.
• Familiar with extending Visual Studio to improve developer experience.
• Experience with F#, especially its relationship to .Net and equivalence with C# .
• Experience with Java
• Experience writing and deploying Azure applications
• Awareness of the distinction between Application development and Framework development
• Ability to interact with and guide application developers having a wide range of skills and personalities.

Job Type: Contract

Education:

• Bachelor’s

Location:

• New York, NY

Required work authorization:

• United States