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Full Stack Engineer

Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon’s open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.

Purpose of Job: Our team is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining a range of Beacon frontend applications and their supporting backend applications. Our products are used daily and extensively by our clients and internal teams. We are proud to be the gateway to the feature-rich Beacon Platform.

The successful candidate will help our team continue to match business needs, exercising an eye for detail across all aspects of the development lifecycle while maintaining organization and good code hygiene. This engineer should be able to effectively communicate both with Beacon’s internal teams and with clients.

Common Criteria:

  • Respects and promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace
  • Ability to communicate on all levels, technical and non-technical
  • Team oriented
  • Takes ownership of their work
  • Willing to learn from more experienced developers and mentor junior ones
  • Attention to detail and perseverance, drives projects to completion
  • Self-motivated and content to work both individually and on team projects
  • Technical creativity and enjoys hard open-ended problems

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement and maintain frontend/ supporting backend applications using reusable frameworks
  • Collaborate with internal teams of core developers, financial engineers and product managers to understand business needs and come up with innovative applications and solutions
  • Enhance user experience on Beacon Platform Functionality through continuous improvement initiatives
  • Research and implement new technologies to optimize efficiency and resolve inefficiencies
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and maintain best practices

Successful Candidates possess these qualities:

  • Self-starter who is passionate about technology
  • Keen eye for automation and improving efficiency
  • Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments
  • Able to take on ideas and feedback from both technical experts and business thought-leaders
  • Takes ownership for their work and has exceptional attention to detail
  • A passion for solving problems and eager to deep-dive into technical components and take an analytical approach to understanding the root cause of issues where they arise

Required skills and experience:

  • 5+ years experience developing frontend applications using Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, RESTful API, websockets, etc.
  • Expert in ReactJS
  • Experience working with frontend state and side effect management using Redux/Saga
  • Experience in backend programming with Python, Golang, Rust etc.
  • Experience writing frontend unit & end-to-end tests e.g. Jest, Vitest, Playwright
  • Demonstrated ability of building high-performing data-heavy web applications
  • Experienced in optimizing project, component and rendering performance issues using modern tooling
  • Willingness to read a lot of code, reuse, refactor and build maintainable software
  • Good communication skills
  • Familiarity with Git and agile-based project management structures
  • Strong UI/UX sensibility

Preferred skills and experience:

  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies
  • Experience with financial application development is a plus

What You’ll Love About Beacon

  • Unlimited PTO - This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.
  • 401K Match
  • Competitive health benefits
  • Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.
  • Startup Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level.

 

Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

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