Staff Software Eng - Full Stack (remote) Yokai - Remote, United States

Position Title: Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (remote) Yokai

Entity: KBRA Holdings

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote (Remote only in CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, MD, NJ, MA, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA)

Summary/Overview:

KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking an engaged and proactive Staff Software Engineer-Full Stack to work on our financial analytical system. We want someone who loves solving difficult problems, digs deeply to understand the domain in which they’re working and is able to create high quality software in a collaborative environment.

About the Team:

We believe that small, empowered teams can do amazing things. Across the engineering organization, we work hard to make the best systems for our customers using modern engineering practices. We are intentional in our investments in time and effort around creating a safe and successful workplace for our team members to succeed. We understand that software development and engineering go beyond the 1’s and 0’s and strive to root it fully into valuable outcomes for our customers.

Our engineering team is a highly collaborative unit that is responsible for creating the web application and backend API for our financial analytics platform. Working with our product team, the team builds toward the vision of delivering a high quality and efficient user interface for our analytics customers. We are growing in this space and looking to best our competitors through improved technology and user experience.

About the Job:

This role involves joining an existing team that is building toward the product vision. This team operates collaboratively and there is an expectation to get involved in all aspects of design, delivery, and support of the Systems. The role is focused around working with the entire team to add new, and enhance existing, product features. We also expect an eye for technical quality that continues to improve as the product matures. 

This role will require an emphasis on collaboration with our existing teams to learn our domain and its unique challenges, while providing value to the customer. It also requires collaboration with our other KBRA engineering, design, product, and platform teams to develop, build, run, and support the system architecture.

About You:

You will be successful in this role if you:

• Have a sense of ownership and craftsmanship around the code base.
• Able to work in a collaborative fashion.
• Have experience collaborating with non-technical and technical partners and can communicate accordingly. Understanding what you are being asked to build and manage the flow of the work in a transparent way as a part of delivering.
• Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies.
• Display a strong track record of mentorship with engineers at various levels.
• Communicate technical ideas clearly, especially across teams and domains.
• Demonstrate a sense of ownership and craftsmanship regarding your work.
• Are mindful of application security and performance.
• Take pride in learning, and want opportunities to learn throughout your day-to-day
• Possess a pragmatic mindset.

Must have skills:

• Eight (8) or more years of experience architecting and developing complex, networked software applications, API’s, and user experiences
• Front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Building React components and applications, with state management.
• Front-end testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright/Cypress/Selenium)
• QA testing and peer reviewing code.
• Developing against existing REST and/or GraphQL APIs, consulting with other engineers to define appropriate data contracts.
• Modern tools and best practices for fetching data (Apollo, React Query, SWR, etc.) to build robust, responsive UI’s around data, including issues with latency, caching, and error handling
• Strong programming fundamentals (OOP, SOLID, etc.)
• Debugging, issue resolution, and troubleshooting

Nice to have skills:

• Familiarity with UX design tools (Figma) and solid understanding of the design-engineering hand-off process
• Backend web technologies (Python, Node.js)
• Modern React based web frameworks (Next.js)
• Caching techniques, and related backend implementations (Redis)
• Cloud Platform/IaaS solutions (i.e. AWS, Azure)
• Containerized development and deployment (i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes)
• Relational and non-relational databases (SQL Server, Snowflake and MongoDB)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Developing robust code using strongly typed languages (Typescript)

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $135,000 to $175,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Cell phone reimbursement

About Us:

KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the U.S., the EU and the UK, and is designated to provide structured finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.

More Info:

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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