Sr. Front End Developer

Finalis is building the largest investment banking platform in the world. 

🚀 What does Finalis do?

Finalis is the leading platform enabling the securities brokerage landscape to operate legally and compliantly. The firm delivers a white-labeled regulatory affiliation and compliance back-office solution that supports a wide range of private market dealmaking including M&A, capital raising, private placements, direct participation programs, fintech marketplaces, and alternative investment sponsors.

Finalis provides additional leverage to securities brokers with the Finalis Platform, which delivers a hassle-free deal management solution and a Marketplace that connects brokers with one another to gain insights and explore collaborations.

Launched in 2020 and growing rapidly, the SF- and NYC-based firm is on a mission to power dealmakers by building the world’s largest dealmaking platform.

Join us in disrupting the securities industry, for good. 

🌍 How does Finalis work?

• We are a fully-remote company with Finalists distributed between the time zones of Eastern Standard Time and Eastern European Time .

• If you’re located outside this time zone range, depending on the needs of your team, you may be requested to be available during specific hours.

• Although we don’t have an official physical place to work, we promote gathering with your team or other colleagues whenever possible. 

🤝 What about your team?

As Finalis continues to rapidly grow, we seek to bring on a skilled SR Front-End Developer for our Work Flow Team. We are looking for talented and passionate people to build the world's largest investment banking platform. As a SR Front-End Developer, you need to have an understanding of the web development process from inception to deployment. It is also required that you have a good understanding of industry trends and the newest software programs and languages. In addition to the technical skills, you’ll need to have excellent problem-solving skills and flexibility due to the changing technologies and startup environments. 

We seek ownership-driven individuals who identify problems and propose solutions that benefit the business and the team's workflow. We highly value autonomy and the ability to make important decisions on a daily basis. As a SR Frontend Developer, you'll work on the front end of our products and features used by our customers.

✨ What will you be doing?

• Write working software, receive and produce code reviews, facilitate unit and functional testing, and participate in discussions with peers about problems and their solutions.

• As a member of the Engineering team, you will follow up Agile and Scrum principles. 

• Being capable of following instructions in the form of backlog stories.

• Discuss architectural and software design patterns.

• Understand algorithm complexity and have a deep understanding of UNIX environments.

• You will have to show “extreme” levels of proactivity, appropriating and effectively gathering internal and external resources.

• You are expected to be mentored, and supervised by senior members in the team.

• Design, develop, test, maintain, and improve our Deal execution platform.

• Attend production requirements.

• Coordinate cross-functionality to ensure that the project meets both business objectives and industry standards.

• Support, test and deploy features and new products as well as participate in code reviews.

• Engage in the design and requirements gathering phases to align with customers.

• Proactively identify and mitigate technical or other challenges.

💬 Who are we looking for 

• You have exceptional written and spoken English

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related technical field or equivalent experience.

• You have a minimum of  5+ years of relevant work experience in software design and development experience in one or more programming languages.

• You have a solid formation in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• You have experience working with React.js.

• You have Full-stack experience, focused on the frontend (the ideal candidate must have experience working with frontend tools, but also experience and ability to build systems in the backend).

• You have knowledge of web design and the fundamentals of user experience.

• You have experience working in agile environments.

• You have the ability to write clean, high-quality and sustainable code over time.

• You can be a multitasker, organized, and able to prioritize work.

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in native / bilingual English.

• You can help enabling user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.

Bonus Track! 

• You have experience with GraphQL.

• You have experience with Apollo Client.

• You have experience with TypeScript.

• You have knowledge of the whole web stack, including protocols and web server optimization techniques.

• You have experience optimizing web applications performance, such as loading time, network use, content injection, among others.

• You have familiarity with microservices and modern authentication services.

• You have interest and ability to learn other programming languages ​​if necessary.

• You have knowledge and awareness of industry trends within application development, data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, containerization, hosted services, multi tenant cloud infrastructures and data storage systems.

🌟 What do we offer?

• 100% Remote work (Work from wherever you want!)

• Competitive USD salary 

• High-Speed Internet expenses allowance

• Generous Paid time-off (Vacation Time!)

• Additional 17 Flex Days (to use in national holidays or personal matters)

• Professional Growth Benefits in our E-Learning Platform (Coursera) (take your skills to the next level!) 🚀

• People Team Partner (to target your roadblocks and customize an action plan for your career path)

• Buddy Program

• Virtual After-Office Activities 

• Diverse Culture & Inclusive environment

🌈 Why work with Finalis?

We are a fast-paced startup which will enable you to develop skills quickly and work in an entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business. As we have Finalists from different countries and cultures, we encourage our team members to develop their soft skills, boosting their ability to adapt themselves to different backgrounds.

Finalis’ core values:

• Embodying the trust we deliver

• Engage with purpose

• Practice stewardship

• Value learning