Experienced Software Engineer


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Beacon Platform

Listed on

14th October 2021

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Competitive + Benefits

Salary Notes

Competitive + Benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Founded in 2014 by ex-Goldman Sachs leaders, CEO Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins.  Beacon builds and designs enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. In addition to developing applications for front and middle office users, the Beacon Platform includes cloud-based, secure sandbox infrastructure, a full suite of developer tools, and transparent source code to give its clients unparalleled power to own the full stack and achieve their business goals. A collaborative and innovative team, Beacon is now 140+ employees with offices in New York, London, Berlin, and Tokyo.

Beacon is revolutionizing the financial services industry by empowering quantitative developer teams and business users. Beacon is the only vendor on the market that gives clients underlying source code, a developer platform, and infrastructure services so that clients can own the full technology stack. Clients benefit from Beacon's next-generation platform for enterprise-scale analytics, trading, risk management, and more.

Location: London 

Team: Core 

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Senior software developer to work on extending our Beacon platform product 

Mentoring internal core developers

Required skills / Experience

General knowledge of data structures and algorithms

General knowledge of software design and OOP

Experience with C++ (or Rust) and Python required

Experience with SDLC tools and agile methodologies required

Plus / Bonus skills

Experience with JavaScript, web development, cloud infrastructure, Docker, Linux administration 

Experience in a Tech or FinTech company

Exposure to multiple programming languages and paradigms

Expertise in C++ and Python

Experience with SecDB/Athena/Quartz 

Desire and ability to mentor other developers

Person Specification:

Ability to communicate on all levels, technical and non-technical

Team Oriented

Takes ownership of their work.

Attention to detail

Perseverance and the ability to drive issue resolution and projects through to completion

Continually strives to improve both their work and their personal knowledge

Self-motivated and content to work both individually and on team projects.

Articulate and able to communicate technical detail to both peers and non-technical stakeholders

Ability to handle stressful situations

Technical creativity and the ability to envision future solutions

Excited by change and able to embrace a rapidly changing business landscape

Benefits:

 Medical Insurance

 Paid time-off

 Contributory 401K/Pension Scheme

 Employee Referral Bonus

 Volunteer Time-off Program

 Wellness and wellbeing initiatives

 Regular social events and parties

 Commuter benefits

About Us:

We are smart, curious people who want to work somewhere that respects all of our lives and interests. This means we all care about  - and respects the boundaries of - work-life balance, but when we work, we work hard and with great attention to detail. 

Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

Beacon Platform participates in eVerify

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