.Net Developer

Title: .Net Developer

Location: New York

Department: Information Technology (IT)

Job Type: Contract-Hire

Length: 6 months

Positions: 3

This role is within the clearing technology team. We build and maintain the software that allows ICE's clearing houses to process millions of transactions a day, reliably and efficiently. Our clearing houses finalize trades, settle accounts and collect margin payments every day.

On ICE's clearing technology team, you will work with our clearing houses around the world to build and maintain systems to calculate margin payments and monitor clearing house risk. The ideal candidate for this position will be a self-directed individual with a passion for technology, innovative solutions, and high-quality deliverables. The role requires solid knowledge of front-end and server-side technologies, good experience with iterative development and SDLC tools, and the ability to work well with others.

Role

• Work closely as a member of a highly skilled, distributed development team on a polyglot, next generation risk system;
• Design and implement solutions in support of critical daily business functions, including margin calculation, backtest, reporting, and model configuration management;
• Make key contributions to the design and development of data-intensive back-end distributed systems and the front-end applications used to manage and interface with them;
• Collaborate on architectural direction, platform evolution, and innovative solutions to challenging problems;
• Have the opportunity to learn from professionals with years of experience in the financial industry and a seasoned team of technologists passionate about financial software
  
  

Responsibilities

• Understand complex business systems and workflows and explain them to other developers
• Develop component designs that work cohesively in the context of existing architecture
• Exercise judgment within defined standard practices and procedures to analyze, test, design, program, debug, modify and implement system requirements
• Work closely with the business units and stakeholders on gathering and understanding system requirements
• Plan and estimate the development for key components, applications and systems
• Balance design considerations with delivering specified requirements
• Solve business problems through the use of applied proven technologies
• Work with system operations, database administration and systems software in production support and defining system recovery procedures
• Develop high performance and business critical applications that work on large data sets in a clustered environment
• Identify root causes and develop solutions for program failures
• Collaborate with business analysts and QA analysts in the design and execution of business feature, regression and integration testing
• Plan and execute unit tests to ensure the developed code is free of functional defects
  
  

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required
• 5+ years of experience developing software within a .NET development environment
  
  

Strong Working Knowledge Of

• C#/.NET Framework
• RESTful API design (and how to implement in ASP.NET Web API)
• Data structures, Algorithms, and Object-Oriented Design
• Design Patterns (and how to implement them in C#)
• Relational Databases (such as Oracle), SQL, PL/SQL
• ORM technologies (NHibernate, Entity Framework)
• Multi-threaded server-side development
• HTML5/Javascript/CSS and UI frameworks such as ReactJS and Redux
• Experience building production web applications with modern javascript frameworks
• Experience in performance tuning, debugging and memory profiling
• Able to work productively under pressure
• Able to multi-task effectively
• Strong collaboration and technical skills in articulating technical infrastructure and concepts
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to work well in a team environment
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills
• Exposure to the financial services domain, particularly in futures and options
• Exposure to the Java enterprise technology stack and Spring framework
• Experience implementing Big Data pipelines for Data Ingestion, Storage, Distributed Processing & Consumption using frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Storm, etc
• Experience with distributed storage solutions and/or NoSQL databases e.g. HDFS, Cassandra