Full Stack Engineer | Beacon Platform | Remote (Japan)

<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon’s open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Purpose of Job:</strong> Our team is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining a range of Beacon frontend applications and their supporting backend applications. Our products are used daily and extensively by our clients and internal teams. We are proud to be the gateway to the feature-rich Beacon Platform.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The successful candidate will help our team continue to match business needs, exercising an eye for detail across all aspects of the development lifecycle while maintaining organization and good code hygiene. This engineer should be able to effectively communicate both with Beacon’s internal teams and with clients.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Common Criteria:</strong></h3>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Respects and promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to communicate on all levels, technical and non-technical</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Team oriented</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Takes ownership of their work</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Willing to learn from more experienced developers and mentor junior ones</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Attention to detail and perseverance, drives projects to completion</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Self-motivated and content to work both individually and on team projects</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Technical creativity and enjoys hard open-ended problems</span></li>
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<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Key Responsibilities:</strong></h3>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Design, implement and maintain frontend/ supporting backend applications using reusable frameworks</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with internal teams of core developers, financial engineers and product managers to understand business needs and come up with innovative applications and solutions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Enhance user experience on Beacon Platform Functionality through continuous improvement initiatives</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Research and implement new technologies to optimize efficiency and resolve inefficiencies</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and maintain best practices</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Successful Candidates possess these qualities:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Self-starter who is passionate about technology</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Keen eye for automation and improving efficiency</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Able to take on ideas and feedback from both technical experts and business thought-leaders</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Takes ownership for their work and has exceptional attention to detail</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A passion for solving problems and eager to deep-dive into technical components and take an analytical approach to understanding the root cause of issues where they arise</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Required skills and experience:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years experience developing frontend applications using Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, RESTful API, websockets, etc.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Expert in ReactJS</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience working with frontend state and side effect management using Redux/Saga</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in backend programming with Python, Golang, Rust etc.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience writing frontend unit &amp; end-to-end tests e.g. Jest, Vitest, Playwright</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrated ability of building high-performing data-heavy web applications</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experienced in optimizing project, component and rendering performance issues using modern tooling</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Willingness to read a lot of code, reuse, refactor and build maintainable software</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Good communication skills</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Familiarity with Git and agile-based project management structures</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong UI/UX sensibility</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Preferred skills and experience:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comfortable working in a Linux environment</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Knowledge of cloud technologies</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with financial application development is a plus</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Love About Beacon</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Unlimited PTO</em></strong> &#8211; This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>401K Match</em></strong></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Competitive health benefits</em></strong></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Access to Udemy</em></strong> &#8211; An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>Startup Culture</em></strong> &#8211; Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level.</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual&#8217;s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Beacon Platform participates in eVerify</p>