Senior Developer

At Ncontracts we help financial institutions make better decisions. This is achieved by creating tools that help them understand their risks and compliance concerns, as well as providing pathways for them to mitigate their risks. We also have teams of industry leading experts to walk them through the process.

We’re currently looking for a Senior Developer to join the team and help us build and integrate our products.

As an engineering organization we’ve come to share several common beliefs:

• We believe that it's possible to build applications in a sustainable and repeatable way.
• We believe that user story mapping, design sprints, and close collaboration with product folks are the best way to determine what needs to be worked on.
• We believe that Kanban keeps our development efforts flowing forward and helps proactively identifying bottlenecks.
• We believe finishing is better than starting.
• We believe that small teams working on well-defined projects for a set amount of time ensures that we build the most valuable things first and allows for a predictable date of completion.
• We don’t believe in estimating individual stories. Ever.

A Senior Developer at Ncontracts is expected to exhibit the following behaviors:

• Leadership by example: A Senior developer is expected to use best practices for development, exhibit excellent communication both inside and outside of the organization, and manage interpersonal relationships appropriately.
• Intentional mentorship: Ncontracts is dedicated to teaching and growing talent and expects all developers to help those less experienced.
• Honesty: Whether reviewing another developer’s code, participating in retrospectives, or working with your team on what direction to take a project we expect openness and honesty. Honesty creates trust, and we believe that all great teams are built on trust.
• Low Ego: Have confidence in your skills and experience, but be willing to alter your opinions and ideas when another, better one comes along. Have strong opinions, but loosely held.
• Instinctive troubleshooting: Rapid diagnosis and resolution of bugs or problems is essential to a productive team, and we expect Senior resources to have significant knowledge from experience to bring to bear.
• Deep Curiosity: You’ll be expected to research new and exciting technologies, perfect the use of existing technologies, and discover new libraries and tools that can affect change across the organization.
• Motivation: You’re a natural self-starter, and you enjoy solving problems. You are capable of jumping in with minimal instruction and figuring out what should be done.

It’s expected you’ll have the following:

• Expertise in one or more of the following languages and their common frameworks: C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Python
• Strong knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases
• Experience writing unit tests
• Knowledge of instrumentation techniques
• Experience building and working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience giving and receiving code reviews, both live and written.

It’s helpful for you to have at least some of the following:

• Experience working in horizontally scaling systems
• Experience in or familiarity with message/event driven architecture patterns and distributed systems architecture
• Familiarity with systems integration
• Experience working with an integrated design team
• An automation mindset