Position Title:   Developer Experience Engineer

Want to work at the forefront of a fast-growing and award winning fintech company? With an incredible team and partners looking for innovative results, we’re rapidly growing and continue to add new asset classes to our offerings. We are on the lookout for smart and collaborative talent to join our team. As a cloud-based company, we are currently operating in a flexible and hybrid work model.  

Job Description

Developer Experience Engineers work on a multidisciplinary team at SIMON focused intensely on improving the common experience across all of SIMON engineering development. The “customers” of our team are our engineering peers, and we engage with them broadly to provide compelling new tools, sort out guidance and best practices across all of our codebases, and collaborate to identify innovations within small groups which can be expanded to impact all of SIMON.

What We’re Looking For

• A background in Computer Science, such as a C.S. degree, incubator experience, or a track record of programming contributions
• A passion for honing and refining the craft of software development; you delight in multiplying the effectiveness and impact of your fellow engineers
• Strong skills in written and spoken English
• An engineer who likes to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and doesn’t shy away from challenges
• A self-starter who is not only able to identify issues but has the skills to implement a solution and the drive to evangelize it to other team

There are several skill sets that can succeed in this role, as our overall engineering stack includes cloud services, Scala, Python, and JavaScript. Some collection of Full-Stack engineering and DevOps skills will complement the team.

One or more of the following:

• Full-Stack engineering experience across multiple platforms
• Specific deep experience with the Scala, JavaScript, and/or Python ecosystems
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
• CI/CD experience, especially in the context of AWS
• Scripting and automation experience, especially with regards to developer environments

We offer a competitive salary and benefits, the chance to work with a curated team of top-notch, highly creative talent, and a fun and agile work environment with many perks in New York City’s Hudson Yards district. 

About SIMON

SIMON Markets is an award-winning fintech company that is committed to transforming the digital experience for financial professionals, enabling them to better serve their clients. SIMON’s intelligent and innovative platform delivers an end-to-end digital suite of tools to over 100,000 financial professionals, who serve $5 trillion in client assets, empowering them with on-demand education, an intuitive marketplace, real-time analytics, and lifecycle management.
With a focus on reshaping the advisor experience, SIMON is setting new industry standards, simplifying the complex, and delivering structured investment, annuity, and defined outcome ETF solutions to investment professionals, centralized within one unique ecosystem.
Originally incubated within Goldman Sachs, SIMON launched as an independently operating company in December 2018 under the shared ownership and direction of seven leading financial institutions—Barclays, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Prudential, and Wells Fargo. Growth equity firm WestCap became an investor in 2021. The company is headquartered in New York, NY, with an additional location in Birmingham, AL.

No matter which part of the team you join, there is something interesting to work on. Our front-end team is building out our web and mobile presence using React, Redux, and Webpack along with some very sophisticated data visualizations. Our back-end team is using Scala, Akka, Postgres and other open-source technologies to build a micro-services architecture that can scale to handle our ambitious roadmap. Our quantitative engineering team is researching and building novel financial strategies to widen our competitive advantage. Our dev-ops team is creating a development and production environment with Docker and Kubernetes to keep us nimble. Product Management sits in the middle of it all to make it happen.