Senior Software Engineer, Backend
About us @Symphony
We’ve spent the last 10 years building the financial markets largest, most trusted communication network. Over 500 market participants across the buy-side, sell-side, securities servicing, and beyond. Over half a million users from trading desks to operations and custody teams interacting securely and in real-time on Symphony.
But that was only chapter one. We’re now using our technology foundation to accelerate far beyond secure collaboration to become the standard connective layer that enables more efficient and automated workflows across the industry to bring the future to financial markets.
The opportunity and our ambition are huge. But we need passionate, dedicated individuals to get there. At Symphony we work hard and fast. Our unique blend of technology and financial services makes it an environment you won't get elsewhere.
Role Description:
We are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer (Java) to join our development team. In this role, you’ll be designing, developing, and maintaining server-side services. You will collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
The Market Voice and Video team has built the core of Audio and Video communication in the Symphony app using WebRTC. We are a small team of developers that works with Java and media backend services. The team is passionate about CI/CD best practices. We’re looking for top-notch talent to join our team to help us change the way the world communicates.
We are seeking someone who asks questions, shares own ideas as well as learns from others, proactively communicates, and can be accountable for own deliverables.
Responsibilities:
You will be a contributor in our backend development team with following responsibilities:
- Design, implement and test scalable server-side microservices (Java, Spring Boot) and their interaction with the Symphony ecosystem
- Contribute to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions with Jenkins at the center
- Collaborate with the product team to gather requirements and other engineering teams to perform product integration
- Investigate issues or performance bottlenecks, document failure analysis, post-mortem, and root cause analysis when required
- Participate constructively and collaboratively in backend design and code reviews
Required Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years’ of practical experience in software development
- Strong proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems and Spring Framework (Spring Boot)
- Experience working with tools, such as Docker, K8s, Terraform, Git, Jenkins
- Experienced working in GCP and/or AWS cloud environments
- Nice to have experience working with WebRTC
Compensation:
- Competitive salary
- Bonus Plan
- Benefits and Perks vary based on location.
Benefits and Perks:
- Regional specific competitive benefits
- Build your own Benefits (BYOB) perk
- Many other fun and exciting benefits and activities!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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