Software Engineer, Feature Team

Summary

Smartleaf is a Boston-based investment portfolio rebalancing service handling over $90 billion in assets. They are seeking a versatile generalist Software Engineer to work on their feature team, focusing on making investment portfolio management scalable and user-friendly. The role involves collaborating with product management and users to gather requirements, design solutions, and tackle technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• As a member of our feature team, you’ll dive into our UI, JS and back end to make investment portfolio management scalable and easy to use
• You’ll work closely with our product management team and our users to gather requirements and design solutions that make this happen
• You’ll need to quickly wrap your head around complex user workflows
• You’ll need a solid understanding of computing principles, strong analytical skills and good technical intuition
• You’ll also need good communication skills to explain issues, potential solutions and tradeoffs in ways that make sense to a variety of stakeholders
• Whenever you need to build internal tools or pick up new skills to achieve our goals, you’re able to roll up your sleeves and bootstrap quickly

Skills

• 2-6+ years of experience building production web applications
• Experience building interactive web applications using Javascript
• Strong understanding of computing fundamentals
• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks with demonstrated ability to learn our stack
• Demonstrated ability to understand user workflows and user experience
• Competence working in a Linux environment: familiarity with common command-line utilities and Unix process management; comfortable with bash scripting
• Candidates must have current and ongoing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Are a strong individual contributor who can gather requirements, propose a variety of solutions and follow through with implementation
• Are able to dive into unfamiliar codebases and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact
• Enjoy learning domain and application logic
• Are communicative and self-organizing
• Have a habit of effectively gaining new skills to suit the task
• Are constantly improving your own process to make yourself more effective

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2-6+ years of experience building production web applications
• Experience building interactive web applications using Javascript
• Strong understanding of computing fundamentals
• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks with demonstrated ability to learn our stack
• Demonstrated ability to understand user workflows and user experience
• Competence working in a Linux environment: familiarity with common command-line utilities and Unix process management; comfortable with bash scripting
• Candidates must have current and ongoing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship

Nice to Haves

• Are a strong individual contributor who can gather requirements, propose a variety of solutions and follow through with implementation
• Are able to dive into unfamiliar codebases and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact
• Enjoy learning domain and application logic
• Are communicative and self-organizing
• Have a habit of effectively gaining new skills to suit the task
• Are constantly improving your own process to make yourself more effective