Harrington Starr are currently working with a specialist global solutions vendor, they are committed to supporting the most demanding Asset Services, Investment Managers, and Institutional Investors in the Private Asset (PA) sector by providing enterprise investment accounting data management solutions designed to deliver transparency, insight and accountability for all stakeholders.

We are looking for an experienced and self-driven senior software engineer to:

• Play a key role in re-engineering / redesigning our main product
• Work on the proposal and implementation of a road map to migrate existing

Framework SMEs to fully understand existing behaviour and new requirements

• Contribute to all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
• Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to the development team
• Oversee progress of the development team to ensure consistency with initial design
• Provide technical guidance and coaching
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Approve final product before launch
• Proven experience relevant to the senior software engineering role
• Team player
• A technical mindset and analytical, detail-oriented approach
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages (including C#, .NET, Java etc.)
• Strong technical background and excellent IT skills
• Great attention to detail
• MSc/MA in computer science, engineering or relevant field

Harrington Starr are currently working with a specialist global solutions vendor, they are committed to supporting the most demanding Asset Services, Investment Managers, and Institutional Investors in the Private Asset (PA) sector by providing enterprise investment accounting data management solutions designed to deliver transparency, insight and accountability for all stakeholders.

We are looking for an experienced and self-driven senior software engineer to:

• Play a key role in re-engineering / redesigning our main product
• Work on the proposal and implementation of a road map to migrate existing

Framework SMEs to fully understand existing behaviour and new requirements

• Contribute to all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
• Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to the development team
• Oversee progress of the development team to ensure consistency with initial design
• Provide technical guidance and coaching
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Approve final product before launch
• Proven experience relevant to the senior software engineering role
• Team player
• A technical mindset and analytical, detail-oriented approach
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages (including C#, .NET, Java etc.)
• Strong technical background and excellent IT skills
• Great attention to detail
• MSc/MA in computer science, engineering or relevant field

Role Overview 

You will work closely with Product, UX and other Engineering team members, as part of the London-based Product team. This role will suit someone who is seeking the opportunity to have a big impact and who relishes the challenge of working in a fast-paced global company in the Financial sector.

This role will offer an opportunity to innovate in a highly complex space. 

The new core platform is a micro services architecture with multiple web/mobile applications built on top.  Our client is leveraging a combination of open source and third-party libraries/frameworks such as Eureka (service discovery), MongoDB (NoSQL), Elastic Search (search), Pivotal Cloud Foundry (cloud native), Microsoft Azure (cloud service platform) and many more. 

Requirements: 

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant software engineering experience including: 

• React or React Native development experience 

• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript and design patterns, CSS (SCSS), JSX 

• Proficiency with unit and UI testing using third party tools e.g. Jest, cucumber, karma, mocha etc. 

• Responsive web and/or mobile design 

• Familiar with modern React Native component libraries e.g. react-native-paper 

• Familiar with mobile app build process, using Xcode / Android Studio 

• Familiar with ES2015 (ES6), TypeScript, etc.  

• Product development or large-scale app development 

• Experience developing mobile applications using native tools such as Objective-C/Swift, or Java/Kotlin 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field 

Please contact Monique Collman at Harrington Starr for immediate consideration

Role Overview 

You will work closely with Product, UX and other Engineering team members, as part of the London-based Product team. This role will suit someone who is seeking the opportunity to have a big impact and who relishes the challenge of working in a fast-paced global company in the Financial sector.

This role will offer an opportunity to innovate in a highly complex space. 

The new core platform is a micro services architecture with multiple web/mobile applications built on top.  Our client is leveraging a combination of open source and third-party libraries/frameworks such as Eureka (service discovery), MongoDB (NoSQL), Elastic Search (search), Pivotal Cloud Foundry (cloud native), Microsoft Azure (cloud service platform) and many more. 

Requirements: 

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant software engineering experience including: 

• React or React Native development experience 

• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript and design patterns, CSS (SCSS), JSX 

• Proficiency with unit and UI testing using third party tools e.g. Jest, cucumber, karma, mocha etc. 

• Responsive web and/or mobile design 

• Familiar with modern React Native component libraries e.g. react-native-paper 

• Familiar with mobile app build process, using Xcode / Android Studio 

• Familiar with ES2015 (ES6), TypeScript, etc.  

• Product development or large-scale app development 

• Experience developing mobile applications using native tools such as Objective-C/Swift, or Java/Kotlin 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field 

Please contact Monique Collman at Harrington Starr for immediate consideration

The Harrington Starr Big Data team are looking to hire a Senior Big Data Engineer.

You will be someone who can demonstrate the following technical experience.

• Core JVM languages knowledge (Java/Scala/Kotlin)
• Apache Spark/Beam
• Apache Kafka
• SQL
• Message formats AVRO/Parquet/ORC/Json
• At least 1 year experience in building data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform
• Big Query- Terraform
• Airflow

Some nice to have skills will focus around the following elements of:

• Certified GCP developer
• Machine Learning and AI knowledge
• Finance experience
• Mentoring junior team members

The Harrington Starr team are looking forward to speaking with you for a discreet conversation.

The Harrington Starr Big Data team are looking to hire a Senior Big Data Engineer.

You will be someone who can demonstrate the following technical experience.

• Core JVM languages knowledge (Java/Scala/Kotlin)
• Apache Spark/Beam
• Apache Kafka
• SQL
• Message formats AVRO/Parquet/ORC/Json
• At least 1 year experience in building data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform
• Big Query- Terraform
• Airflow

Some nice to have skills will focus around the following elements of:

• Certified GCP developer
• Machine Learning and AI knowledge
• Finance experience
• Mentoring junior team members

The Harrington Starr team are looking forward to speaking with you for a discreet conversation.

Senior Network Site Reliability Engineer, Chicago, Permanent Direct Hire role

A top hedge fund is hiring for a Senior Network SRE to join their Chicago office to help bring Site Reliability Engineering practices to their financial trading network infrastructure using innovation and technology to reduce complexity and improve performance. In this role you will ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of network infrastructure and related applications, improve automation, test for scale and improve disaster readiness, help manage risk, forecast demand and plan for capacity, monitor, configure, and troubleshoot routing, switching, and multicast, commission and decommission infrastructure, support production network infrastructure, evangelize the SRE mindset, and participate in incident response, postmortem and root-cause analysis.

Candidates must have at least 4 years’ experience as a Network SRE with experience maintaining large scale networks, a deep understanding of LAN, WAN, and Linux networking, proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible or Ninja, experience in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, F5), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Telecommunications Engineering.

Experience with Virtual Networking such as VMware NSX, certifications such as CCIE or CCNP, an understanding of Linux OS, experience building and managing highly reliable large scale systems, and experience in the financial trading industry is highly advantageous.

If this sounds like a fit for you or someone you know, get in touch! I can be reached at Matt.Kerwin@HarringtonStarr.com or at 646 809 4742.

Matt Kerwin

Senior Consultant, Head of Infrastructure & Support – North America

Harrington Starr | 575 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10017

D: +1 646 809 4742

O: +1 646 381 2067

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Senior Network Site Reliability Engineer, Chicago, Permanent Direct Hire role

A top hedge fund is hiring for a Senior Network SRE to join their Chicago office to help bring Site Reliability Engineering practices to their financial trading network infrastructure using innovation and technology to reduce complexity and improve performance. In this role you will ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of network infrastructure and related applications, improve automation, test for scale and improve disaster readiness, help manage risk, forecast demand and plan for capacity, monitor, configure, and troubleshoot routing, switching, and multicast, commission and decommission infrastructure, support production network infrastructure, evangelize the SRE mindset, and participate in incident response, postmortem and root-cause analysis.

Candidates must have at least 4 years’ experience as a Network SRE with experience maintaining large scale networks, a deep understanding of LAN, WAN, and Linux networking, proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible or Ninja, experience in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, F5), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Telecommunications Engineering.

Experience with Virtual Networking such as VMware NSX, certifications such as CCIE or CCNP, an understanding of Linux OS, experience building and managing highly reliable large scale systems, and experience in the financial trading industry is highly advantageous.

If this sounds like a fit for you or someone you know, get in touch! I can be reached at Matt.Kerwin@HarringtonStarr.com or at 646 809 4742.

Matt Kerwin

Senior Consultant, Head of Infrastructure & Support – North America

Harrington Starr | 575 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10017

D: +1 646 809 4742

O: +1 646 381 2067

We take your privacy very seriously and as such, we want to be as transparent as possible. To read more about how we always have your best interests at heart, head over to our Privacy Policy. For more details please visit our website at www.harringtonstarr.com.