Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) · 14 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - Frontend SPA (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expDonnelley Financial Solutions is a values-driven organization that delivers innovative software and service solutions for financial reporting and capital markets transactions. They are seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the architectural vision, design, and implementation of frontend systems, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a world-class user experience for their SaaS platform.
Cyber SecurityFinanceSoftware
Responsibilities
Complex web frontend SPA development and architecture
Design and implement concise, modular, cohesive, frontend and backend services in a distributed system context that are resilient, efficient, and reliable
Ensure automated tests are highly effective in terms of software quality, refactor flexibility, and integration/delivery/build speed
Design, refactor, implement, or work within micro-frontend SPA(s)
Optimize builds for speed and deterministic dependency management
Concurrent and asynchronous software design/development
Advanced asynchronous and resilient network communications design and implementation
Software development on complex, but potentially irreducible algorithms or combinatorials
Understand the basics of determinism, complexity classes, and resource constraints
Find ways to reduce/decompose complex software components along appropriate boundaries
When apparently irreducible problems are encountered and they resist beneficial decomposition (np-ness), find ways to simplify through approximation theory and quantization
Extensive usage of all aspects of observability systems from experienced instrumentation of code to well-designed queries, dashboards, and alerts
Data driven optimization of latency, compute, memory, storage, and network traffic
Maintain awareness of production system performance, errors, and code usage
Communicate with clarity with diagrams, documentation, and presentations to other developers, dev teams, SREs, and management
Optimize build, deployment, and IaC provisioning pipelines
Rigorous analysis of escaped defects to determine corrective actions with depth of insight
Communicate clearly via software architecture, embedded docs, or o11y
Design and develop defensively to maintain or increase security going beyond OWASP and zero trust patterns by truly understanding the area of the system being worked on
Rigorous and proficient review and clear feedback on pull requests by team members
Keep up with relevant technologies, techniques, tools, and patterns
Ensure the software is as simple as possible, but not simpler
Build software with people. Product managers, other developers, SREs, junior engineers, senior engineers, and offshore. Construct software that matters!
Constantly address technical debt. Shine a light on it, even when it hurts
Participate in the planning of technical engineering and product roadmaps
Plan, lead, or manage projects when called upon to do so while remaining hands on
Qualification
Required
BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Commitment to your development, the products you work on and the firm
6-15+ years of experience designing and building frontend software applications
Experience with secure coding standards and participation in systems security practices
Ability to explain complex topics to managers/directors, program/product managers
Strong Typescript/JavaScript/ECMAScript
Roughly 50% or more of the following (in order of importance):
Experience with heavy, complex frontend software
Redux/Redux-Saga
Browser APIs
Immutable data structures
In depth REST API experience
Frontend test frameworks
Javascript V8 GC
Service workers, Web workers, or WASM
Concurrency and/or asynchronous operations
Algorithm and combinatorial design and optimization
Memory optimization including binary/byte level techniques
Node JS
Micro-frontends
WebSockets or other push technologies like Signal R or long polling
Browser Canvas
Advanced HTTP protocol/Networking
Preferred
REACT (preferred), Angular, or other SPA frontend development tech stack
Java, C#, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
Docker, AKS/Kubernetes
Distributed systems backend experience
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Flexible workplace
Comprehensive benefits
Opportunities for professional growth
Company
Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
DFIN is the leading global provider of compliance and regulatory software and services, fueling end-to-end investment company regulatory compliance needs, complex capital markets transactions, and essential financial reporting at every stage of the corporate lifecycle.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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