Want to work with a small, experienced team on a high-performance product as part of fast-growing private equity backed business? We an expanding our software development team and have one opening for a smart software developer to work on our AlphaFlash product. Using innovative hardware and software, AlphaFlash provides machine-readable economic data to customers faster than any other news agency.

The core of the job involves getting data as fast as possible, whether from a feed, a web scrape or a lockup. The job includes investigating and characterizing potential data sources for speed and reliability, as well as retrieving and parsing data and applying safety checks so we never send out the wrong data. We also have internal and customer-facing websites to support the product, so you will get some front-end work mixed in with the back-end work.

You must have excellent skills in Java or a similar language (e.g. C#, C++, Rust, Go). You also need to be a good problem solver. The best source of a particular piece of data is not always obvious, and you have to understand or discover how to work with web servers, CDNs and network protocols to get the best performance.

You don't have to know all these details to apply, but you do need to be able to learn as you go.

We operate as a distributed team because we have members from Maine to Colorado, but we do have offices in Chicago and on Long Island, NY and you are welcome to work at either of those. You can work from anywhere in the continental US time zones as long as your workday begins by 9 am central time for the morning stand-up. Our main office is in London, so any meetings with them will be in our morning (their afternoon).

Excellent skills in an application or systems programming language
Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
Good technical problem-solving chops.
Understanding of network transport and high-level messaging, such as TCP/UDP
Good practices for unit testing. Sending wrong data is a disaster, so testing is essential.

Nice to have:

Understanding of web application deployment and CDN architecture.
In-depth knowledge of HTTP protocol, including all the headers.

Company-subsidized Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision), along with optional HSA and FSA
401(k)
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
Life Insurance (Basic life insurance and AD&D provided by company, Additional life, AD&D optional)
Disability Insurance (long-term provided by company, short-term optional)
Employee Assistance Program
Commuter benefits

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