[Remote] Software Engineer, Feature Team

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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 investment portfolio management, focusing on UI, JS, and backend development to enhance user experience and scalability. The role involves close collaboration with product management and users to design solutions and requires strong analytical and communication skills.

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
• To solve the technical challenges, 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
• 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

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