Full Stack Engineer

IEX is the first equity trading venue seeded by a consortium of buy-side investors, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and family offices. IEX's unique ownership consortium represents a cross-section of traditional investors who are all dedicated to a fair and balanced market that works for all participants.

IEX is looking for a talented Full Stack Engineer to join our efforts to continue to develop our portfolio of web products. You’ll be working on applications that are critical to IEX’s day-to-day business operations, such as our internal dashboards, cloud apps, web services, and mobile apps that the business and our clients use on a daily basis. The ideal candidate will be thoughtful and well-rounded, and will have experience supporting highly available, real-time web applications. You’ll be joining a lean, efficient, collaborative team where everyone plays an essential role and takes ownership of their work. Experience in financial services is not necessary, but a passion for IEX’s mission of driving fairness and transparency in the markets is a must.

* Maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., Google, AWS) * Write server side code to support critical Node.js applications and high-volume web services * Build, design, and implement scalable cloud-based web applications * Work in an agile team environment * Participate in code reviews to drive highest quality coding * Work in the full software development life cycle

**Characteristics of the ideal candidate:** * Dedicated to product quality * Passionate about supporting an amazing user experience * Excited about creating a scalable cloud infrastructure * Eager to work in a fast-paced collaborative startup environment **Job Qualifications** * 4+ years of engineering experience * Software programming experience in Node.js, Java, Python, Go, database design and SQL * Solid understanding of the full web stack (e.g., HTTP, headers, caching, SSL, HA Proxy, WebSockets, DNS, CDN) * Solid understanding of cloud design considerations and limitations, distributed systems, load balancing and networking, data storage, and security * Experience using, integrating, and optimizing build/deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Puppet, Ansible) * Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance * Nice-to-haves: * Foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills * Knowledge of raw JavaScript (ES5/ES6) * Experience designing, building, and tuning databases and caching layers (e.g., SQL, Redis, Memcache) * Developed Node.js applications on top of RESTful APIs * Recent experience working with React, Redux, Webpack, and NPM