Our client is searching for a UX Designer to join their New York office. You will be a crucial member of the team working closely with business and the frontend/full-stack developers, gathering requirements and creating Design Systems and application designs for upcoming projects.

Responsibilities:

• Discover and define business requirements
• Create Fully featured Design System
• Design user experiences and user interfaces in collaboration with the product manager and users/businesses
• Map designs to technical requirements with engineers
• Design overall application experience architecture

Requirements:

• 7+ years’ experience as a product designer within an agency, technology company, or financial services company
• Experience in creating complete Design Systems, UI Component Kits and Style Guides
• Experience with all aspects of the product development lifecycle: concept, research, design, development, rollout/feedback
• Expert understanding of core design principles (e.g. layout, typography, visual hierarchy)
• Strong experience of core UX design processes (e.g. user research, wire framing, usability testing, feedback gathering)
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience working alongside and closely with UI developers
• Expert understanding of Multi-platform design (Web, Mobile and Desktop)
• Strong experience of adaptive and responsive design paradigms
• A pragmatism that ensures the product will be both delivered and be as good as it can be
• High-level understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and React.

Education:

• Degree in human-computer interaction, cognitive science, design, or other UX-equivalent research experience
• Or Bachelor’s of Science (master’s degree preferred) in engineering, computer science, or mathematics.
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If you would like to be considered for the position of UX Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 72176) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Are you a natural programmer who loves to build real-time applications and systems that make an immediate impact? Are you passionate about building software that challenges and inspires you every day?

Our client is an award winning global investment firm built around world-class talent, sound risk management, and innovative bleeding-edge technology.

You’ll work on solving challenging high impact projects on a massive scale alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and under the sponsorship of the firm’s CTO with a fast track to leadership opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Build tools that bring trading strategies to life and maximize their performance and profitability
• Develop high-performance research platforms that ingest and analyse petabytes of data
• Work in small teams to write the future of finance

Requirements

• 2-4 years of professional experience in development
• Exceptional programming and design skills
• Strong analytical skills and familiarity with probability and statistics
• Ability to communicate effectively in a collaborative, complex and highly technical team environment
• Intellectual curiosity and passion for solving challenging problems using technology

Education

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering or STEM subject (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD) from a top tier institution

If you would like to be considered for the position of Quantitative Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team.

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join them in their office. This role will primarily involve working with a cohesive team of infrastructure engineers, developers, and trade support teams to build world class systems and the necessary tools to maintain and constantly improve. The position calls for someone with a mind to innovate, automate and constantly use measurements and statistics to improve.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of infrastructure and applications
• Develop APIs for and automate infrastructure delivery, maintenance, and visibility
• Establish platform SLOs and systematic response procedures
• Forecast demand and plan for capacity
• Provide support to production infrastructure and evangelize SRE mindset
• Actively participate in incident response, postmortem and root-cause analysis

Requirements:

• Strong background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
• Fully proficient in at least one modern structured programming language
• Comfortable with a range of current software development tools and practices (testing, source control, build systems, etc)
• Deep understanding of Linux systems internals
• Some experience with building and managing highly reliable large scale systems a plus  Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit
• A passion for learning, adapting to changing requirements and technology and inventing new approaches to hard problems

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or an allied field.

If you would like to be considered for the position of Site Reliability Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team.

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 72176) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Detection & Response Engineer to join their team in Chicago. In this dynamic role, you will be responsible for developing & executing a modern detection and incident response security program to deliver required capabilities.

Responsibilities:  

• Design, implement and administer various security technologies as they relate to detection and response. These include, but are not limited to:
  • SIEM, Alerting, Automation and Playbook development
  • Threat Intelligence Integrations
  • InfoSec tools related to obtaining detection signals and increased capabilities
  • Anomaly Detection and User and Entity Behavior Analytics
• Act as Incident Owner during Security Incidents
• Secure architecture designs relative to both on premise and cloud environments
• Assess logging infrastructure in order to determine capability gaps
• Automate detection and response processes using commercial and/or custom built tools
• Report on actionable Metrics regarding detection and response
• Execute detection and response testing and develop frameworks to test detection and response efficacy.
• Evaluate, design and implement security solutions to improve the confidentiality, integrity and/or availability of the firm’s intellectual property and systems, as needed in various projects
• Assist in the creation or modification of forward-thinking security policies and procedures as needed

Requirements:

• 3+ years of security engineering experience and  3+ years of scripting/Automation experience
• Experience automating security activities, such as incident response actions, configuration changes, and threat hunting
• Strong understanding of both security and network fundamentals and protocols
• In-depth knowledge of Windows and Linux security best practices
• Familiarity with web application exploits and effective detection capabilities
• Proficient in automation or scripting using a high level language. Python or PowerShell preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong team player, but can work independently with minimal oversight when required
• Financial Services industry experience is a plus

Education:

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or related area

If you would like to be considered for the position of Detection and Response Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Pipeline System Engineer to join their team in New York. The ideal candidate will be skilled in the art of integration who understand the Agile mindset and Site Reliability Engineering philosophies, yet, not constrained by how “things are usually done" and are willing to decompose and reinvent systems, processes, and tools.

Responsibilities:  

• Building and managing the world's most advanced compute, network and storage infrastructure and eliminating work through automation
• Build automation to manage and monitor infrastructure services and applications
• Ensure and improve the reliability, availability and performance of infrastructure and infrastructure-related applications
• Investigating new ways to improve operations and defining new solutions to solve technically complex systems issues
• Diving deep into service interdependencies and region specific configurations to find the root of a problem about to affect entire markets
• Learn from industry leaders, distinguished engineers and investment professionals

Requirements:

• 1-4 years of industry experience on building and managing Compute, Network, and/or Storage systems and/or components
• Proficient in Python
• Experience using Linux
• Experience in automating routine tasks
• Experience in configuration management and infrastructure provisioning (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
• Fundamental technology knowledge on: storage concepts (e.g., object/block/file storage, NFS), compute concepts (e.g., different OS environments, virtualization), networking concepts (e.g., DNS, HTTP, TCP, UDP, IP)
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with modern monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, SolarWinds, Grafana, Zabbix)
• Experience developing APIs
• Experience with source control (e.g., Git, GitHub, Perforce)
• Knowledge of security concepts and best practices (e.g., ACL, IPSec, TSL/SSL, Kerberos)
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
• Combination of interest, knowledge, and experience in finance, financial technology, and/or asset management industries

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

If you would like to be considered for the position of Pipeline Systems Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join them in their Chicago office.

Responsibilities:  

• Active member of experienced engineering team, focused on cloud services offering to other teams within the company
• Work independently as well as part of a team, with global customers and strong uptime requirements.
• Establish, maintain and evolve concepts in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for existing and new services.
• Write clean, stable and safe code in short time frames and frequent increments.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations teams to improve the automation of workflows, infrastructure, code testing, and deployment.

App Migration

• Act as lead engineer, working with customer teams, to migrate their Apps to use the cloud platform.
• Work closely with App teams to responsibly lay out technical, operational, and dependencies for clean migration
• Assess schedules and own the overall migration timetable

Requirements:

• A whatever it takes attitude
• Good communication skills
• A solid understanding of programming concepts and coding experience
• Solid Linux skills
• A general knowledge of cloud compute and storage concepts
• Experience with languages such as go, python, and shell scripting
• The ability to handle multiple critical tasks

If you would like to be considered for the position of Cloud Platform Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Data Center Technician. You will be in charge of maintaining their co-locations and on-site data center

Responsibilities:

• Installing and cabling switches, servers, and appliances in their onsite data center
• Facilitating installation of servers and network equipment with smart hands in remote co-locations
• Managing power and space including monitoring and capacity planning
• Maintaining a consistent and clean cable management philosophy
• Managing cable inventory
• Replacing hard drives/memory/transceivers and other hardware related tasks as required by the server and network teams
• Assisting with planning moves or new build-outs
• Getting equipment to and from remote colocations including packing/shipping
• Maintaining data center documentation

Requirements:

• Experience working in a modern, large-scale data center
• Attention to detail and cleanliness
• Ability to identify basic parts of network equipment – SFPs, line cards, chassis
• Ability to identify basic parts of servers – memory, network card, hard drives, etc..
• Experience with identifying port locations for specific device manufacturers (Cisco, Arista, Juniper)
• Knowledge of structured cabling systems using cat 5, cat 6, multi-mode and single-mode fiber
• Familiarity with both power and communications cabling standards
• Experience configuring and using cable testers for both fiber and copper to troubleshoot cabling issues
• An understanding of change control processes
• Strong documentation mentality

If you would like to be considered for the position of Data Center Technician or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced UX Designer to work closely with business and the frontend/full-stack developers on the team. You will be a crucial member of the team gathering requirements and creating application designs for upcoming projects.

Responsibilities:

• Discover and define business requirements
• Design user experiences and user interfaces in collaboration with the product manager and users/businesses
• Map designs to technical requirements with engineers
• Design overall application experience architecture

Requirements:

• 7+ years experience as a product designer within an agency, technology company, or financial services company
• Experience with all aspects of the product development lifecycle: concept, research, design, development, rollout/feedback
• Knowledge of asset management/investing – ideally with equities
• Expert understanding of core design principles (e.g. layout, typography, visual hierarchy)
• Strong experience of core UX design processes (e.g. user research, wire framing, usability testing, feedback gathering)
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience working alongside and closely with UI developers
• A desire for pixel-perfection
• A pragmatism that ensures the product will be both delivered and be as good as it can be

Education:

• Degree in human-computer interaction, cognitive science, design, or other UX-equivalent research experience
• Bachelor’s of Science (master’s degree preferred) in engineering, computer science, or mathematics.

If you would like to be considered for the position of UX Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 72176) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Linux Engineer to join them in Amsterdam. The Linux Team ensures that the trading servers work so they can trade. They establish that the production environment works optimally by deploying, maintaining, monitoring and operating a fleet of UNIX servers to its highest possible performance. You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep the systems best-in-class.

Responsibilities:  

• Tackle the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions
• Upgrade, maintain and execute changes to the UNIX servers
• Performance monitoring and managing the system capacity
• Fix and analyse technical incidents, solve technical ad hoc problems
• Lead the charge to intelligent automation
• Be the connection between hardware and software
• Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better

Requirements:

• A Linux Admin meets SRE/Programming mindset to help build the right tools for their continual improvement
• Experience within a high-performance computer environment where the result matters
• Some focus on automating and solid scripting skills (e.g. PowerShell and/or Python)
• Infrastructure-as-Code with an Ansible flavor
• Understand how and where to kill snowflakes
• Knowledge of virtualization and networking, plus an emphasis in bare metal.
• Experience with cloud providers as AWS or Azure a bonus
• A proactive approach to problem solving
• High attention to detail coupled with strong communication skills
• The ability to multitask and handle priorities in collaboration with other teams

If you would like to be considered for the position of Linux Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in New York. The Risk and Analytics team performs core front office functions in delivering real time positions, position analytics, and risk analytics. It is a critical part of the trading flow, and the data and surrounding tools produced by the team are used by the investment professionals as a core part of their workflow. This system is a highly distributed, low latency, and event based. Core technologies being leveraged are CEP’s, kafka, and other distributed frameworks.

Responsibilities:  

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications
• Own the automation of repetitive tasks and resolution of systematic issues
• Identify and deliver engineering solutions for issues based on root cause analysis
• Own incident management and resolution
• Lead by evangelizing the SRE mindset to other teams
• Provide support and ensure applications are production ready

Requirements:

• Strong background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
• Fully proficient in at least one modern structured programming language
• Comfortable with a range of current software development tools and practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD etc)
• A basic working understanding of TCP/IP networking, LAN and WAN as well as Linux networking
• SQL and database experience a strong plus.
• Web UI experience (e.g., knows javascript, CSS and similar web languages) a plus.
• Some experience with building and managing highly reliable large scale systems a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit
• A passion for learning, adapting to changing requirements and technology and inventing new approaches to hard problems

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or an allied field.

If you would like to be considered for the position of Site Reliability Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you