Sr. Software Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Sr. Software Engineer

Location(s): Newtown, CT / Remote US_Massachusetts / Remote US_Florida / Remote US_Texas

Get To Know Us:

A team of developers and technologists with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds, all engaged and working towards a common goal.  Teams are broken up into different areas of technical expertise, but cross training and exposure to different areas of the system are welcomed and encourage.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

• Work on SS&C’s next generation investment accounting platform
• Collaborate with other highly motivated, like-minded developers to drive the product forward
• Have the opportunity to make a lasting impact and contribute towards Singularity’s success

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years overall software development experience with C#/.NET, including debugging skills
• 5+ years overall database design & development experience with MSSQL, with a strong knowledge of relational database principles, database tuning, and query optimization
• Experience building web-based applications
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of computing environments (client-server applications, web applications, networks, databases)
• A desire to always learn new things, collaborate with team members to move the product forward
• Proficient with MS based tooling including but not limited to, Visual Studio and SSMS
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines and to work under pressure in a team environment
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Core Software Skills

• Must understand object oriented programming, inheritance, polymorphism
• Must understand service oriented architecture, programming, and design patterns
• Proficiency with source control (Git or equivalent)
• Experience with .NET Framework a must, experience .NET Core/Standard a plus
• Experience building, maintaining, or interacting with APIs
• Fundamental understanding and experience with multi-threading, multi-processing, and how to scale in general

Core Database skills

• Can create and alter SQL tables, functions, and procedures
• Understands Inner and Outer joins
• Strong knowledge of how to construct performant queries, and how to analyze execution plans
• Strong SQL debugging skills using sql profiler, tracing, or other means
• Understands the different types of indexes, how to construct them and when to use them
• Understands deadlocks and how to avoid them
• The ability to review other developers’ SQL and be a key resource in recommending optimizations and identifying bottlenecks
• Comfortable with cursors, table variables, output parameters, identity columns, temporary tables their scope
• Understands database normalization, and when denormalization makes sense

Business Analysis

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate opinions and ideas
• Excellent analytical, reasoning and problem-solving abilities

Preferred Qualification

• Previous experience with financial applications is strongly desired
• Previous experience with distributed systems/message brokers
• Experience with web based technology, including ASP.NET, MVC, and Web Forms
• Experience or understanding of UI tech including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and modern frameworks like VueJS or React
• Previous experience with microservice architecture
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• The user of Fiddler or other related network debugging tools

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.