System Software Development Position

Fast growing international software and services Company delivering Executive Decision Support solutions has several exciting and rewarding career opportunities in its software development organization.

Join a dynamic, collaborative team of highly talented, experienced professionals, which is developing world class enterprise software sold to top executives of financial services companies. We are seeking intellectually inquisitive, multi-dimensional software professionals, with the experience and flexibility to work with a variety of platforms, languages, and system architectures, and who have a passion for providing creative solutions to challenging problems.

Although we have been in business over eight years, our Company maintains an entrepreneurial spirit. We believe we have the best solution in the industry, and an enormous opportunity to address a world-wide market which needs our solution. Everyone in our Company has a significant impact on building our business, and we look for out-of-the-box thinking and individuals who work hard but like to have fun while doing so.

The firm is led by a senior team of investment banking, insurance and software executives. Headquartered in scenic Purchase, New York, DFA Capital Management Inc. is a short commute from some of the most desirable areas in the northeastern US, located just 30 minutes from Manhattan, 15 minutes from Stamford, Connecticut, and 20 minutes from the Tappan Zee Bridge. Our office is located in an upscale building, on beautiful grounds, with an onsite cafeteria and fitness center.

Job Description:

  • You will be developing the next generation of ADVISE™. This major undertaking will involve incorporating the latest industry standard platform(s) and developing major new functional enhancements.
  • You will have full responsibility for the entire software development cycle for your projects: requirements, design, implementation, and testing, in a fast-paced, progressive development environment.
  • Your ability to deliver high quality, well designed and documented code is critical to our success and a matter of professional pride for you.
  • You will be developing the system and server-side layers of our multi-tiered enterprise solution (Operating System interfaces, system installation, configuration and management, application services, grid/cluster platform), utilizing a variety of open source and industry standard platform technologies. Primary languages include K, C, and Java.
  • Areas of focus include scalability, fault tolerance, workflow and security, database integration, audit functionality, and integration with tools e.g. EXCEL, Crystal Reports, BizTalk, etc.
  • You will handle occasional email and phone technical support with customers.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum 3 years experience developing sophisticated system software
  • Experience with design and implementation of complex multi-machine grid/cluster systems
  • Windows and Unix OS low level API programming (not scripting) skills using C/C++
  • Experience with SQL and database integration with applications
  • Expert at Java, HTML, and C programming languages
  • Willingness to learn new programming platforms and languages
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills
  • BA or BS or higher degree

Pluses

  • Degree in Computer Science
  • Experience in developing Enterprise Web applications and related Web technology: J2EE, Java, HTML, Ruby/Rails, AJAX, XML, XSL etc..(not .NET or C#)
  • Experience with additional Web technology: Ruby/Rails, AJAX, XML, XSL etc.
  • Experience with low level TCP/IP networking concepts
  • Experience with software development technology: Subversion, Eclipse, Junit etc.
  • Experience with designing (any or all) scalable, fault tolerant, concurrent, distributed, secure, multi-user, Enterprise software with integrated workflow that is fully auditable
  • Experience with numerically intensive applications and/or developing systems with large data sets
  • Experience with Teradata database

Compensation:

Highly competitive salary, performance based bonus, stock options and excellent benefits package.

Please send resume by email to jobs@dfa.com

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