What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Application Engineer position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
Smartleaf is a Boston-based investment portfolio rebalancing service handling over $90 billion in assets. They are seeking an Application Engineer to work on their platform team, diving into UI, API, and back-end development to enhance financial portfolio management. The role requires strong analytical skills, effective communication, and the ability to quickly adapt to complex workflows.
Responsibilities:
• As a member of our platform team, you’ll dive into our UI, API and back end to make financial 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.
• 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.
• You’ll be a strong individual contributor who can gather requirements, propose a variety of solutions and follow through with implementation.
• You are able to dive into unfamiliar codebases and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact.
• You enjoy learning domain and application logic.
• You are communicative and self-organizing.
• You have a habit of effectively gaining new skills to suit the task.
• You are constantly improving your own process to make yourself more effective.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2-8 years of experience building production web applications
• Computer Science degree
• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks with demonstrated ability to learn our stack
• Solid SQL skills for working with a complex data model and high-volume financial data
• Understanding of multiprocessing and multithreading considerations
• Competence working in a Linux environment: familiarity with common command-line utilities and Unix process management; comfortable with bash scripting
Company:
Simartleaf is a financial service business that offers portfolio management solutions. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.
