Software Developer - NEET

The New Employee Excellence Training (NEET) Program for Software Developers provided by FRG is the first step in preparing individuals for a career developing new solutions to solve business requirements in the Financial Risk Industry. This program is structured so that each participant will gain:

• The necessary business domain knowledge to be successful in this role.
• Experience developing software using languages and frameworks such as Go, Python, Django, and Angular.
• Exposure to architecting cloud solutions to solve real-world challenges.
• A minimum of one cloud technology certification.

At the completion of the NEET program, the successful employee will be well-equipped to make significant contributions to the development of FRG's product offerings.

The Work

The successful candidate will perform the following duties day-to-day:

• Learn to write complex and original software code in support of FRG’s VOR product offerings
• Work in a peer review environment, where code review happens on every merge
• Participate in aspects of product development and rollout including design, development, debugging, implementation, documentation, and support
• Be responsible for provisioning cloud infrastructure in support of FRG's product offerings
• Contribute to improving the developer experience by assisting with improving existing CI/CD flows
• Learn and assist in developing specification, program, and documentation standards
• Embrace challenges and learn new skills; be a catalyst for change
• Learn and assist maintaining functional operation of assigned production systems
• Learn about developing prototype and demonstration systems
• Perform other tasks as assigned

Our Technology Stack

Our stack (note that we will train you on any of these—you don't need prior experience in all of these):

• Golang, Python, Django, SAS, and Postgres
• Angular and TypeScript
• Consul and Vault
• AWS, Docker, and Terraform
• Automated CI/CD using GitHub Actions with staging and production environments

Benefits

• Company-paid training and certification bonuses
• Company medical plan (renewed annually)
• Bonus program, dependent on level
• 12 days annual paid vacation while training in the NEET program, and 15 days annual paid vacation upon graduation
• 14 paid sick leave days per year

Must have:

• A First Class or Second Upper Bachelor’s Degree in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics, Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Computational Finance, Engineering, Sciences, or Finance
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• No experience with our technologies required as training will be provided

Nice to have:

• Exposure to data structures and design
• Exposure to financial modelling techniques
• Exposure to Unix/Linux OS
• Experience with one or more languages from our technology stack
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, decision making, and organizational skills