Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon’s open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.
Purpose of Job
The Front Office Suite (FOS) team is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining Beacon Platform’s front and back office trading applications using the proprietary Beacon Dependency Graph and Glint, Beacon’s UI framework.
The successful candidate will help FOS continue to grow, exercising an eye for detail across all aspects of the development lifecycle while maintaining organization and good code hygiene. This engineer should be able to effectively communicate both with Beacon’s internal teams and with clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, enhance and maintain applications and components comprising FOS
- Collaborate with internal and external clients to understand their application development needs, adapting and customizing our platform to suit them
- Work with internal and external clients to gather and analyze requirements and product enhancements
- Participate in code reviews and provide technical feedback to the team
Successful Candidates possess these qualities
- Self-starter who is passionate about technology
- Keen eye for automation and improving efficiency
- Ability to provide leadership and accountability for work they undertake and articulate their thoughts
- Comfortable with fast-paced and strongly collaborative environments
- Able to take on ideas and feedback from both technical experts and business thought-leaders
- Takes ownership for their work and has exceptional attention to detail
Required skills and experience
- 2-5 years of software development experience using Python or any other OOP languages
- Experience designing and building customer facing applications/components
- Empathy for clients and desire to solve customer problems
- A strong focus on design, testing and adhering to best practices
- Ability to work in agile-based project management structure
- Good communication skills
Preferred skills and experience
- Familiarity with Git
- Experience with Trading and Risk Management systems
- Familiarity with MVC or MVVM architectural design pattern
What You’ll Love About Beacon
- Unlimited PTO - This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least
- 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.
- 10 paid company holidays
- 401k matchCharitable donation match
- Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.
- Company Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level.
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.
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What We Do
Beacon Platform is the premier enterprise innovation platform designed to supercharge developer productivity, enabling innovative financial services firms to get more value out of their R&D. Beacon partners with and empowers clients to become change agents in their organizations through cutting-edge technology tools. Beacon is developing the future of financial services on the cloud.
Beacon gives businesses and their developers the flexibility and scale they need to gain a competitive edge. Beacon removes the shared pain of designing new applications and strategies by streamlining the development and deployment process, enabling teams to rapidly experiment with new solutions and business models, all on the cloud. Beacon provides clients with a powerful set of cross-asset trading and risk tools and analytics out of the box, including full access to source code, and lets them build on top.
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