Senior Software Engineer

iMatchative is a technology company that is creating innovative solutions through matching using an interdisciplinary team of well known academic experts, Wall Street industry insiders, technology, consumer marketing, and product development professionals-all of whom bring a fresh mindset to the financial/technology industry.

• We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build out the next generation of our product and platform. We have a lot of interesting challenges that all involve innovative data delivery within a service-oriented architecture -- from entity detection, related entities, extracting data from unstructured sources, machine learning systems, and a single page application to tell our users about this data.

• Our engineering team is collaborative and small, and you’ll have the opportunity to influence positive change within an industry that’s excited about it. You’ll also have the support of in-house subject matter experts from behavioral psychologists to data engineers.

• Drive the implementation of components for a Single Page Application, including application frameworks and back end code.
• Coach and mentor peer engineers and recommend best practices and tools.
• Design and build REST APIs and services including data serving, caching, and authentication.
• Employ development best practices and tools in a Continuous Integration environment.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Developed web applications with Python and Django or a similar MVC framework
• Designed and built REST APIs and applications within a service-oriented architecture
• Used MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Built and shipped products in an Agile environment
• Collaborated with front end development teams
• Worked on the full stack including front end with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Bonus points for:

• Experience building single-page applications with Angular or React
• Familiarity with Memcached or Redis
• Knowledge of Hadoop, Storm or Spark
• Experience building applications using test-driven development
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field