ActiveViam Hiring for Frontend Software Engineer, R&D Apps Job at London, England Full Time

ActiveViam is a premier software development firm providing state-of-the-art data analytics technology and solutions for financial firms across the globe. Our software is utilized by top banking institutions, hedge funds, exchanges, asset managers and others. Our community edition software is used by data scientists in a variety of other verticals building industrialized solutions in Python and Jupyter notebooks.

ActiveViam is seeking talented JavaScript/React Software Engineers to join our expanding business solutions team.

We need bright and enthusiastic Software Engineers to build solutions using our technology to solve the most demanding problems in financial services areas such as Front Office, Market Risk, Credit Risk and Liquidity Management.

As one of our Software Engineers you will join our exceptional business solutions team and be exposed to a variety of technologies while building solutions using our flagship, cutting-edge technology products. You will have the chance to take responsibility for the delivery of successful projects and for the design of creative and imaginative solutions for our customers. As part of our global business solutions team you will have the opportunity to travel and spend time working in one of our offices around the world including London, Paris, and Singapore.

The Frontend Software Engineer Role

The right candidates are motivated individuals who love to work in a fast-paced environment. They must be a team player, passionate about technology, eager to comply with development standards, and meet deadlines. Successful candidates for this position must be able to multitask and must work well independently as well as within a group setting.

The business solutions team is responsible for developing product solutions based on our core technologies; ActivePivot ActiveUI and ActiveMonitor. Software engineers participate in the full lifecycle of product development including design, development, documentation, testing and support

Key Duties

• Work as a software engineer developing solutions for our Accelerator program, building high-profile and highly performant ActivePivot/ActiveUI projects that fast-track customer projects in a number of banking and financial use-cases.
• Act as technical subject-matter expert on the accelerator product offerings assisting the customer success and business development teams on usage, customization, performance tuning, and debugging.
• Liaise with the core product center for issues in underlying components (issue description, reproduction, follow up)
• Provide application trainings to internal support teams
• L3 support for customer reported issues

Required Skills and Experience

• 2+ years professional experience using JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS and the related ecosystem (npm, testing-library, Jest etc)
• A passion for high quality UX and attention to detail
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Strong analytical skills or experience in data presentation
• Energetic self-starter
• Effective in a team environment
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in high-pressured, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with recent/modern devops concepts and tools (Agile dev, CI/CD).
• Experience with database tech & languages (e.g. OLAP+MDX, RDB+SQL, no-SQL).
• Experience with software dev for financial services
• Experience with Python and Jupyter Notebook
• Experience with java
• Knowledge/interest in Capital Markets and financial risk concepts.