Our client is a global institutional trading firm looking for a Sr. JavaScript Developer to join their Capital Markets Technology team. They are responsible for building a suite of state-of-the-art market intelligence products & transactional engines to provide investment banking and Equity Capital Market services to new corporate issuer customers in both the public & private sectors. They are a small, agile team comprised of roughly 10 technologists & product experts. Each team member has the responsibility to own and deliver crucial features to help grow this new and exciting business.

Their suite of end-user products run on Web, Mobile, and Desktop platforms, utilizing Node.js, robust client-side JavaScript on AngularJS, ExpressJS as middleware as well as Java. They have a service-based Java backend architecture and rely heavily on open source technologies such as Jetty, Spring, memcached, and MongoDB. On the product & design side of our team we are fortunate to have full time designers, business analysts & product managers whom are responsible for envisioning & guiding the build out of our product suite. This position affords the opportunity to work with all three facets of our team from technology to product & QA

The Role
They need a strong Lead AngularJS Developer to help them build their next generation, web-based Capital Markets applications. Someone with a strong sense of entrepreneurial ownership of the projects & initiatives you will be tasked with under minimal supervision.   You will be the Lead JavaScript Developer responsible for the frontend (Angular) and middleware Express layers. 

You will work with Developers, BA’s, Designers, Testers, Sales people, Subject Matter Experts, System Admins, and others in a cross-functional team.

Qualifications/Skills

• Proficiency with frontend JavaScript MV* frameworks including AngularJS and one or more of the following: Backbone.js, Ember, Knockout.js or Meteor.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of web development experience.
• Deep Development Experience in HTML5, CSS (Bootstrap 3), CoffeeScript, NodeJS, npm modules, bower modules.
• Strong ability to autonomously take charge of the direction & build out of the UI/UX aspects of our application suite.
• Experience with MongoDB and Oracle.
• Proficiency with CSS and modern CSS-generating languages and frameworks (Sass, Less, Stylus, Twitter Bootstrap, Compass, Blueprint).
• Proficiency with Template languages (Handlebars, Jade).
• Experience writing cross-browser and mobile CSS and JavaScript, and familiarity with differences between browsers (including mobile browsers).
• Experience writing fast, responsive UI code.  You know the right way to structure complex JavaScript and CoffeeScript on the client side for top performance.
• Ability to build fully-functional UI prototypes driven by dummy data.
• Good familiarity with OOD (not the Oodkind from Doctor Who) and common design patterns.
• Solid ability to write unit tests for AngularJS with Karma and functional tests with Selenium / Protractor.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Cordova and Ionic.
• Experience with Single Page Web Applications.
• Experience with mobile development under iOS and Android.
• Experience in deploying node.js applications with based hosting platforms (Heroku, Amazon Cloud Services, RackSpace, Google App Engine).
• Experience in the Financial industry.
• Public Github Projects with contributions to open source projects.
• Great Stack Exchange Reputation.