Application Developer (Java/Angular)

Job Description

Description

About Raymond James:
Founded in 1962, Raymond James Financial, Inc. is a Fortune 500 diversified holding company providing financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through its subsidiary companies engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to capital markets and asset management. Headquartered in Florida, Raymond James Financial has approximately 8,000 financial advisors in 3,000 locations throughout the United States, Canada and overseas. With over 125 consecutive quarters of growth and Service 1st culture, Raymond James Financial aims to be the premier alternative to Wall Street.

Job Summary:
At Raymond James, we are revolutionizing the usage of Technology to enable our Financial Advisers to best serve their Client/End Investor, developing complex algorithms/investment analytics, state of the art Wealth Management Platform, using latest technologies/tools (Java & Angular, Spring Boot, Apache Ignite etc). If you are passionate about Wealth / Investment / Portfolio / Asset Management space and the technology to develop the best of breed applications, Raymond James is your place. We are looking for very strong Full Stack Developer (with experience in Java and Angular). This position has the ability to sit in our St Petersburg, FL Home Office or our Denver, CO (DTC) location.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Analyzes system requirements, including identifying program interactions and appropriate interfaces between impacted components and sub systems.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or to reuse of existing code.
• Participates in software system testing and validation procedures, programming and documentation.
• Provides technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
• Ensures proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and schedule slippage.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Work on bug resolution and application improvements, such as performance and maintainability.
• Participate actively in discussions, presentations and decisions about front-end & server side development and application design.
• Participates in Sprint Planning, Tasking and Estimation of the assigned work.
• Responsible for the development of re-usable services, user interfaces, unit testing, and code reviews.
• May occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

Experience and Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and a minimum of five (5) years of relevant development or engineering experience or combination of education, training and experience.
• Financial Services experience preferred.
• Experience as Full Stack Developer (Java & Angular4.0+) preferably in Financial Services industry.
• Experience working with SOA & Micro-services utilizing REST, SOAP etc.
• Hands on experience in building an enterprise scale highly componentized application using Java, Hibernate, and Spring Framework.
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Jenkins, Genesis, Code Quality Tools etc.
• Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patters, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.
• Experience working with Java Script framework such as Reactive Programming concepts (RxJs), Angular4.0, TypeScript, SCSS and HTML5.
• Experience in using debugging tools used for profiling/optimizing performance.
• Experienced in RDBMS and SQL/PLSQL.
• Unit testing frameworks - JUnit, Mockito.
• Automated tested frameworks ex: karma, jasmine, protractor etc.
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing UI components.
• Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for agile & waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Licenses/Certifications:
• None required.

Competencies and Behaviors:
• Analysis: Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.
• Communication: Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Exercising Judgment and Decision Making: Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
• Technical and Professional Knowledge: Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.
• Building Effective Relationships: Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Client Focus: Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.