Software Engineer

About the Company:

“Built By Active Traders, For Active Traders”, TradeZero was founded in 2015 by a team that leveraged decades of collective operating and trading experience to build a next-generation trading platform tailored to the needs of the ever-growing community of sophisticated traders.

With its core offerings of U.S. equities, equity options, and its proprietary Short Locate Services (U.S. patent pending), TradeZero serves both domestic and international active traders, representing a robust and growing total addressable market.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Participate in the creation of business and technical specifications with broker dealers, team leads, developers, and      program managers
• Follow the software development life cycle, from planning and prioritizing to testing and release
• Write well-designed, efficient code as needed, including:
  • review, test, and debug team members’ code, and
  • conduct the testing of completed code modules with the help of the testing team, and
  • fixing code as needed to ensure a smooth system deployment with the intended functionality/specifications

 Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering or related field
• 5 - 10 years of total IT experience
• 5 – 10 years of development experience in either C# or Java 
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented concepts and multi-tier applications
• Experience designing, implementing and delivering high quality software solutions that conform to architectural standards
• Experience working with all phases of a multi-tier software development lifecycle (GUIs, databases, mid-tier, batch applications, distributed, micro-services)
• Experience working with data-heavy applications (both real-time streamed and relational data)
• Ability to demonstrate excellent collaboration / communication skills in working closely with other development teams to roll-out important changes and applications
• Experience working with full-stack technologies (React, Vue, microservices) a strong plus

What are some skills and experiences that will make you stand out?

• Experience in the design and implementation of medium to large applications with a focus on providing front-end or back-end      services for various client applications
• Ability to diagnose problems through existing processes and procedures as well as being able to recognize when a condition does not fit the documented use case
• Experience with trading tools, professional desktop tools, Retail investing mobile and web applications
• Experience with trading strategies for Securities, Options
• Ability to communicate effectively understanding complex problems and explain their solution