WHO WE ARE
We are Adaptive, a growing and successful software company with a great reputation amongst staff and clients alike. We work closely with our financial clients to build bespoke software solutions to support their business goals. Our client's success relies on us making sound technical decisions, collaborating with stakeholders and being up to date with the latest technology and practices in the Fintech industry.
The Role:
Our Montreal office is looking for a Senior Web Developer to deliver a next-generation all-to-all real-time platform to serve the North American institutional market. The platform will be delivered in a greenfield manner with a modern technology stack throughout. This includes a reactive HTML5 front-end and a clustered, resilient back-end. Adaptive has unique experience delivering similar platforms and the person in this role will be crucial to leveraging that internal knowledge and driving the delivery directly in partnership with the client and their senior management.
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As a web applications developer, you will:
- Build greenfield financial applications alongside your Adaptive colleagues
- Use the latest technology to create elegant and robust solutions
- Contribute to building and releasing quality software on time
- Use your knowledge to build great-looking, event-driven and highly interactive interfaces
- Collaborate with server-side developers, user-experience designers and business analysts
- Participate in a test-driven, agile environment
- Keep up to date with the developments in technology and quickly adapt to them to achieve better results
Required skills and experience:
- Extensive overall web development experience
- Extensive client-side development experience, gained while building single-page web applications
- Expertise in JavaScript: you understand prototypical inheritance, scope, and closures
- Proficiency in user-interface technologies in React.js , JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Practical knowledge of web tooling such as Webpack, NPM, Yarn, Gulp and PostCSS
- Understanding of ES6 and newer ES specifications
- Proficient with Chrome developer tools, including knowing how to diagnose and fix performance issues
- Experience of working on front office systems
Language: English (fluent) - French is a plus
Desirable skills and experience:
- Working with distributed teams
- TypeScript, Rx.js, Redux
- Event-driven APIs
- Real-time experience
- mobile
Personal qualities:
- Strong desire to raise the bar for your team technically
- Tenacious, curious, and collaborative in all aspects of your work
- A quick learner with excellent communication skills
Benefits:
Our benefits are designed with you in mind. We aim to provide benefits that are meaningful and useful to you and that reflect our culture. Therefore, Adaptive will assume:
- A competitive salary;
- 23 days of vacations;
- 50% of the cost for group insurance which includes health, dental, life insurance and short or long-term disabilities,
- up to 5% of your annual salary as a pension plan contribution, if you contribute the same,
- 50% of your public transportation monthly pass,
- 50% of a gym membership
About us:
- No politics
- No cumbersome hierarchy: our teams feel free to speak up, to make suggestions and raise concerns
- Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other and pitch in
- Smart, welcoming and motivated colleagues
- Good work/life balance and Friday beers
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Don't worry, we won't put you through tens of interviews! We'll review your application and if it's aligned with what we're looking for, we'll arrange a phone call with you. If after that phone call, we're both happy to proceed, we'll arrange for you to speak with someone in the technical team by phone. If that goes well and we're all still happy, we'll invite you to our offices to meet with us for an interview
Please note that due to the nature of our work, we will run a background check on the successful candidate after an offer has been accepted.