Senior Back End Developer

We are disrupting the world of Finance – think Big Data; think Natural Language Processing; think Artificial Intelligence; think Slick User Experience.

Responsibilities

- Own a variety of mission-critical and data-intensive problems, solve the tough problems
- Translate high-level business needs into well-defined and scoped functionality
- Implement current functionality, improve existing infrastructure

Got Skills

- Strong CS fundamentals gained through Bachelor’s degree in CS, Math or related discipline or equivalent industry experience
- Experience in building large-scale web applications and infrastructure
- Experience with web front-end development: W3C Compliant, XHTML, CSS, Javascript and libraries such as JQuery
- Experience with creating secure websites or apps
- Proficiency with Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby
- Excellent knowledge and experience with both object-oriented and service oriented programming paradigms (including C++ and/ or Java)
- Knowledge of database theory; familiarity with MySQL




- Backend web development within frameworks like Django, AppEngine and Rails
- Creativity and ability to learn and solve problems quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Self-motivated engineer who can take the initiative and work effectively both independently and as part of a team of engineers
- Experience working with a version control system
- Understands complex web development and database concepts
- Understands the benefits of various design methodologies and object-oriented environments
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and test-driven development
- Data architecture and external data integration experience
- Experience with filesystems, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, and distributed system
- Experience with Hadoop or MapReduce

We don’t expect you to know everything, but expect you will do what it takes to learn new technologies, and stay ahead of the curve.

📌 Senior Developer (Toronto)
🏢 Market IQ
📍 Toronto