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Software Engineer - Workspace Team

Location: New York or Hybrid/Flexible Remote

We have an office in New York and this position can either be based in the office, or hybrid/flexible remote, with the option to attend the office once a week (subject to your existing legal right to work in the jurisdiction).

About OpenFin

OpenFin is a high-growth enterprise productivity tech 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, 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. Within finance, the number of firms utilizing OpenFin technology has grown from 2,400 to 3,800 since the launch of Workspace in May 2021. Having recently closed our Series D funding, we are paving the way for exciting times ahead!

About the Role

OpenFin is growing and we are looking to add an additional engineer to our global Workspace team! 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. 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 & the UK.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Write reusable code - DRY concept
• 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
• Where necessary, create spikes or proof of concept code to address technical unknowns, and where applicable promote these into production quality code
• 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 VS Code) to identify edge cases or usability concerns
• 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
• Recommend improvements to the software designs and code to peers and customers
• 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
• Contribute to growing our team and our culture

Our Ideal Candidate Has Experience and/or Interest In

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

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience building complex consumer grade web applications and a good understanding of software design patterns
• 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
• A strong command on using JavaScript or TypeScript and/or Electron required
• Excellent analytical thinking, oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence peers
• 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