Front End Developer (#FinTech)
Canopy Pte Ltd, India
Job Description
Canopy is a FinTech startup based in Singapore. Canopy is seeking to build a bionic advisor called Bento, providing custom-built, intelligent, investment portfolios at a fraction of the cost charged by incumbents. Designed for accredited investors such as high net worth individuals and institutions, Bento aims to marry the best of algorithm-powered asset allocation models with a human touch. The company is led by professionals with decades of experience in asset management and banking, and is setting up to be among the first bionic advisors in Asia.
Requirements
Overall:
The developer role(s) will be responsible for building this platform from scratch. High level requirements and wireframes have been completed and we need to turn this into a working product in as short as timeframe as possible, while maintaining a high degree of quality. Therefore we are seeking dynamic, fast working, agile developers (2-3) with a high focus on producing robust, functional and intuitive software. Mesitis uses an existing technology stack including Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript (ember), CSS / HTML and Postgres RDBMS. You will need to be familiar with at least some of these technologies.
The successful applicant must be/have:
- a thorough understanding of and experience with the Ember.js framework
- familiarity with Ruby or Rails, preferably in a RESTful context using GRAPE API
- strong knowledge and experience with HTML5, CSS and Javascript
- experience developing reasonably complex web applications in the cloud
- comfortable dealing with high level requirements that need to be refined using a collaborative, agile approach
- experience with one or more of the following technologies will be highly regarded: AWS, Docker, Git, Jenkins,, Postgres database
- we prefer candidates in the Asian and Eastern European timezones as collaberation with our other developers at reasonable times for them is key
Qualifications
- Min 2 to 3 + years development experience
- Advanced English is a must
- Experience with startup companies is a plus
- Ability to discern user requirements and develop technical specifications
- A passion for building beautiful looking, easy to use, elegant frontends
- Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities, risk management and consumer privacy requirements
- Tertiary qualifications in computing science / information technology strongly desirable
- We are open to different locations and remote developers, however the Asian or European timezone is preferred for practical reasons
Benefits
You get to work in a dynamic, growing and exciting company brimming with opportunity. We promote a positive, can do culture focused on producing great products for our clients. We will start with a short term contract and if that's successful more opportunities will await.