Urgent: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Description

BetaNXT

The Company

BetaNXT is the next wave in wealth management technology and outsourcing solutions. We focused on solving our customers most demanding integration challenges with flexible, efficient, connected solutions. Our products reduce enterprise cost, streamline operation processes, increase advisor productivity, and enhances the investor experience. Together with BetaNXT, wealth management firms are transforming their platforms into differentiating assets that enable scale and commercial growth.

But we're not just invested in our customers; we're also invested in people. We know that our overall success is a combined effort, and we therefore strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow and thrive.

The Opportunity

BETA is a self-clearing securities processing solution for wealth management firms. Built on years of expert knowledge and hands-on experience, BETA provides critical back-office controls including corporate action management, middle office exception management, and front office account management and trading tools for advisors.

We're in search for an experienced and technology-oriented Senior Specialist, Technology Development that specializes in mainframe development. This is an individual contributor position, and the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate analysis, definition, design, construction, testing, installation, and maintenance of software to meet agreed business needs. On any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code, reviewing code and design, enforce secure coding practices, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.

About The Team

Reporting to the Manager, Technology Development, this role is part of a Scrum team supporting product(s) within the development team. The role will be involved with developing products on the Beta platform. This role will be involved in daily Scrum meetings and require heavy collaboration within and across many teams. Our business model is hybrid, working from our Bangalore campus.

What You'll Do

Using an analytical, engineering-focused approach and expert knowledge of programming languages to develop computer programs and ensure software is as functional and robust as the client or consumer needs. Core responsibilities will include:

- Develop flawless solutions based on requirements with thorough coding and unit testing.
- Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests and automation.
- Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions.
- Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
- Ensure continued functionality of a program during maintenance and testing of software
- Revisit the development process to fix bugs or address client or consumer concerns
- Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance
- Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule
- Creates, reviews, and maintains all required technical documentation/ manual related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse

Your Experience

- 13+ years of professional and recent hands-on coding and software design; preferably in the financial services industry
- Bachelor's degree in computer science / software engineering or equivalent
- A track record of projects completed on time you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator
- Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development
- Solid software design knowledge you should know how to create software that's extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.
- Strong technical experience with specialist knowledge in Mainframe Technologies with experience in languages like COBOL, JCL, SQL etc and processing environment like CICS, CICS Transaction Server 3.1
- Experience with MicroFocus/Veryant COBOL, ISAM, GitLab for code repository and CI/CD
- Strong knowledge on DB2. Extensive design knowledge in DB2 Load/Unload process with nightly batch process using DB2 Load/Unload utility
- Work autonomously and in teams, and will never back down from the challenges of scale
- Experience in architecting major solutions.
- Driving major projects technically End to end.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the worldregardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law.