Senior Full Stack Engineer

(This role is based in Trepp's NYC office and follows a hybrid work schedule)

Trepp has multiple opportunities for individuals with strong backgrounds in programming to undertake challenging projects in our Technology department.  We provide a collaborative team environment where our technologists work closely with product and subject matter experts in addition to other technology team members and are empowered to impact the organization through leadership, creativity, and innovation.

The Full Stack Group at Trepp is responsible for creating and developing our suite of software products. Being a member of the Full Stack Group allows you the flexibility to learn and hone your skills on a number of various tools and technologies. You’ll have the experience to work with and create services based on data lakes, caching infrastructures, and container-based applications. Our products focus on data and analytics in the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking verticals. This team works closely with our Product Groups to always refine our product and feature sets, improve overall user experience, along with creating new Product Workflows.

We encourage our developers to continue to focus on the developer experience in addition to the user experience. Engineers are encouraged to provide enhancements to internal tooling as well as other technology improvements. We want our apps to be fun to develop while being easy to use for our clients. The Full Stack Group is working to build modern foundation of APIs, Services, and data sets to create powerful applications.

We value being able to think up new solutions to problems and be able to develop prototypes and POCs to validate ideas quickly. You will be challenged to think creatively for the best solutions to any given project.

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, source management, and testing.
• Thinking like a user of our products to ensure optimal user experiences and keeping an eye to simplicity, despite working with large and complicated data sets.
• Comfortable being given clear project goals & objectives, and being empowered for discovering optimal solutions.
• Experience thinking about performance engineering and performance within the Browser and API servers.
• Comfortable with acting as a technical leader when needed and able to context switch between projects in a fast-paced environment.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of professional programming experience working in full stack engineering departments developing in JavaScript/Typescript, React, Node.js, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of various RESTful API patterns and the trade-offs between each.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Fundamental understanding of modern testing practices in full stack applications. You know how to add quality automated testing and can differentiate the responsibilities between unit, integration and e2e tests in client-focused applications.
• Strong documentation skills (Markdown, you like GitHub READMEs), generating architecture design documents, and the ability to communicate requirements to other team members and project stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• A drive to work on financial data systems & pipelines and improve them through the usage of Cloud Architectures.
• Deep experience with React, related frameworks and recent implementation patterns (think hooks, global state management, NextJS, React Query, Tailwind, etc).
• Experience developing APIs and Services running on cloud technologies utilizing docker and container strategies such as ECS.
• Comfort for being self-sufficient within your tech stack. Being able to build and maintain terraform configurations, docker containers, Github Actions, etc on top of your own application itself.
• Expertise in building and maintaining the correct sets of automated tests for a given project.
• You have worked with product stakeholders to create actionable engineering work and complete it through iterative delivery.
• Expertise in utilizing AI assistance to amplify your personal contributions in addition to the team’s output. For instance, we want to see that you understand the difference between using an agent in your personal workflow and identifying when there is a process that can be improved through an agentic workflow.

Salary Range:

• Base salary starting from $165k plus bonus eligible

Benefits and Perks:

• Base + target bonus compensation structure
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• 401K (with employer match)
• Life insurance, long term disability, short term disability all covered by the company
• Flexible paid time off (PTO)
• Sixteen (16) weeks paid primary caregiver leave (Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible)
• Four (4) weeks paid parental leave
• Wellness subsidy
• Pet insurance
• Laptop ​+ WFH equipment​
• Career progression plan
• Pre-tax commuter benefit with company subsidy (For NYC-office based employees only)
• Fun company events and volunteering opportunities

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Trepp (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Workplace Policy:

NYC, PA, and London office-based positions: Trepp’s offices follow a 3-2 hybrid working policy with the expectation of in-office work on Tuesday through Thursday and the option to work from home on Monday and Friday.