Engineer, Workspace 

Location: New York, London, or Remote 

We have offices in New York and London and this position can be based in either office, “hybrid-remote” or remote in the US or UK (subject to your existing legal right to work in either jurisdiction).

About OpenFin

OpenFin is a fast-growing financial technology company backed by the world’s largest banks and most respected Fintech VCs, including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Wells Fargo, SC Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, DRW, Nyca Partners, and Pivot Investment Partners. OpenFin modernizes and democratizes app development and distribution in the finance space. We provide a secure OS that brings a fast and intuitive app experience to the financial desktop. Built on Google’s Chromium and GitHub’s Electron open source projects, OpenFin combines native experience, data sharing, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. OpenFin is used by thousands of developers to deploy and run more than 1,200 apps at more than 1,500 financial institutions.

About the Role

Our growing Workspace team is hiring! We are seeking a full stack developer with hands-on experience working across various stages of software development and a passion for designing, building and innovation. In addition, an active interest in a wide range of technologies, and a desire to learn new ones! Supported by our array of expert engineers, you will play a critical role in developing creative solutions for our clients.

Our ideal candidate has a quality first mindset and is a solutions oriented, reliable self starter with a strong attention to detail. You should be a quick learner that enjoys solving unique problems. Once again, the ability to learn and quickly comprehend is critical to success. People who enjoy going deep into understanding the foundations and seek to learn, will make great team members. 

Although we are FinTech, finance knowledge is not required. We have an informal, collaborative and fun working environment and the person in this seat will get to work with an exceptional team of engineers across the US & UK.

Responsibilities

• Design and build APIs and related functionality that power some of the most complex and mission critical applications at the world's largest financial institutions 
• Apply the knowledge, rigor and patterns typically used to create backend server or full stack architectures to instead solve complex front end challenges on the desktop
• Quickly get up to speed with technologies and products of interest to OpenFin and our customers. Many of the problems we solve are unique and require creative solutions
• Make impactful and insightful contributions to code reviews and design discussions
• Identify challenges to adoption of APIs (developer ergonomics, failure states, future unplanned use cases) and suggest solutions to these, whether through code, API design, or documentation
• Recommend improvements to the software designs and code to peers and customers
• In partnership with the design team and other engineers, leverage your knowledge of commonly used user interfaces (i.e. the windows operating system, browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and other specialty browsers, modern desktop apps like slack and vscode) to identify edge cases or usability concerns.
• Where necessary, create spikes or proof of concept code to address technical unknowns, and where applicable promote these into production quality code
• Write reusable code - DRY concept
• Contribute to growing our team and our culture

Our Ideal Candidate has Experience and/or Interest in

• The design of distributed systems 
• Highly complex asynchronous programming
• Collaborating with UX/Design/QA teams
• Desktop or container technologies such as PWAs, ElectronJS, or the OpenFin container
• Working in an agile environment and the ability to think ahead of the sprint
• Experience working in enterprise production environments
• Troubleshooting

What We're Looking For

• 3 years of experience building complex consumer grade web applications and a good understanding of software design patterns
• A strong command on using JavaScript or TypeScript and/or Electron required
• Experience with a wide range of other technologies and frameworks such as .NET, Java, Python, Go, React, NextJS, Mocha, C , etc.is preferred
• A grasp of how to understand business requirements and the way they translate to technical requirements
• Ability to foster a collaborative and supportive environment working within engineering, product and customer solutions teams and be comfortable communicating with clients on occasion
• The ability to be adaptable and nimble to meet the needs of various stakeholders and shift tasks as necessary 
• Excellent analytical thinking, oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence peers

Workspace Team Specific Requirements

• Should have a strong understanding of UI development basics and best practices;
• Semantic HTML
• Accessibility
• Responsive/Adaptive Web Design
• Atomic Design Concepts
• A basic working understanding of build tools (webpack, babel, linters) helpful to have
• CSS preprocessor experience a plus (sass, less, styled-components)
• Experience working with state management libraries (Redux Preferred) 
• Strong understanding of React and its core principles
• Composition Vs Inheritance 
• Abstraction
• Shadow DOM
• State & Lifecycle

Life at OpenFin

At OpenFin, our mission is to stay on the cutting edge of web technologies and to enable our customers to do the same. We pride ourselves on our friendly, diverse, understanding and supportive culture. Our goal is to create a space where employees can learn and innovate, and overall, have a good time doing it. We value and appreciate that our employees have a wide set of interests and experiences. Getting to know each other and forming relationships is important, which is why we regularly host offsite events, happy hours and virtual social hours, in addition to having a variety of Employee Resource Groups to participate in. Our environment is conducive to a productive and enjoyable learning experience -- moving fast, aligned together and working to create compelling solutions for our clients.

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