Software Engineer, OpenFin
$140-180k
OS for enterprise productivity
Job no longer available
OS for enterprise productivity
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-180k
101-200 employees
Company mission
OpenFin's mission is to provide a unifying foundation for the next generation of financial industry applications.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience building complex consumer grade web applications and a good understanding of software design patterns
- A strong command on using JavaScript or TypeScript and/or Electron required
- Experience with a wide range of other technologies and frameworks such as .NET, Java, Python, Go, React, NextJS, Mocha, C++, etc.is preferred
- A grasp of how to understand business requirements and the way they translate to technical requirements
- Ability to foster a collaborative and supportive environment working within engineering, product and customer solutions teams and be comfortable communicating with clients on occasion
- The ability to be adaptable and nimble to meet the needs of various stakeholders and shift tasks as necessary
- Excellent analytical thinking, oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence peers
Desirable
- The design of distributed systems
- Highly complex asynchronous programming
- Collaborating with UX/Design/QA teams
- Desktop or container technologies such as PWAs, ElectronJS, or the OpenFin container
- Working in an agile environment and the ability to think ahead of the sprint
- Experience working in enterprise production environments
- Troubleshooting
What the job involves
- Design and build APIs and related functionality that power some of the most complex and mission critical applications at the world's largest financial institutions
- Apply the knowledge, rigor and patterns typically used to create backend server or full stack architectures to instead solve complex front end challenges on the desktop
- Quickly get up to speed with technologies and products of interest to OpenFin and our customers. Many of the problems we solve are unique and require creative solutions
- Make impactful and insightful contributions to code reviews and design discussions
- Identify challenges to adoption of APIs (developer ergonomics, failure states, future unplanned use cases) and suggest solutions to these, whether through code, API design, or documentation
- Recommend improvements to the software designs and code to peers and customers
- In partnership with the design team and other engineers, leverage your knowledge of commonly used user interfaces (i.e. the Windows Operating System, browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and other specialty browsers, modern desktop apps like Slack and VS Code) to identify edge cases or usability concerns
- Where necessary, create spikes or proof of concept code to address technical unknowns, and where applicable promote these into production quality code
- Write reusable code - DRY concept
Our take
OpenFin’s goal has always been to improve workflow optimization in the financial industry, with a focus on promoting systems interoperability and native experience. The OS includes intelligent full-service workspaces, and a developer platform including APIs to build native web apps.
Over the past decade OpenFin has been adopted by major finance players like Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and Wells Fargo. Then OpenFin cemented this market-leading position by launching the FDC3 industry standard for desktop interoperability in 2017, which has since seen widespread adoption. Along with OpenFin’s impressive client base, it’s made the company an authoritative body in fintech.
This will continue to help OpenFin secure the top spot as the industry develops. With digital transformation creating further workflow complexities, interoperability and scalability are more important than ever. OpenFin’s focus here means it’s already tempting new clients from growing and complex fintech spaces like FX trading. It seems likely that even more major players will follow suit, especially since OpenFin's 2023 Series D funding which is being channelled into helping the financial industry adopt OpenFin OS. The latter platform is already used by 3800 financial bodies in more than 60 countries.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
May 2023
$35m
SERIES D
Nov 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Total funding: $92.1m
Company benefits
- Open-Minded, Curious, Culture: A culture that breeds collaboration. Meet new people, partake in daily stand ups and group brainstorming sessions
- Generous time off and benefits: PTO, sick time, flexible working hours, company equity, and 401k plan administration. We also offer comprehensive health insurance coverage for you and your dependents
- Offices (if you want them): Drinks and Snacks to keep the team energized and hydrated. We delight in happy hours, company outings, commuter benefits, and a game room. All of this happens in casual dress
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Mazy Dar
(CEO)Previously a programmer with UBS, who subsequently worked as chief strategy officer with Creditex Group. Just prior to OpenFin, was VP of CDS marketing and strategy with IntercontinentalExchange.
Chuck Doerr
(President/CIO)Previously CTO of Creditex International, and served a spell as VP of credit derivatives technology at IntercontinentalExchange.
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