VP-Fullstack Developer- Risk tech

Description:

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

Position / Group description:

The Risk Technology group builds and supports a global risk platform enabling the Risk Management group to oversee all areas of risk across the Firm. The risk platform provides capabilities for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, reporting, and controlling exposures across market and credit.

The position is for a Senior Developer who will be part of Risk Technology team. The developer will play a key role in major transformation projects involving the end-to-end build of a modern, highly scalable, risk platform.

The role will involve the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of risk analytics, data modelling, reporting, and management systems. This will be executed by implementing system components; coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop responsive, modern user interfaces using React or similar frameworks, leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate prototyping, component generation, testing, and delivery.

• Design and implement cloud-native, loosely coupled, event-driven microservices supporting real-time and batch risk processing.

• Partner with Risk Management and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, define solutions, and resolve issues.

• Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, incident retrospectives, and broader engineering best practices.

Essential Experience/ Skills:

• Strong full stack development experience across modern UI, back-end services, APIs, data integration, and cloud-native architectures.

• Expertise in building interactive dashboards, data visualizations, reporting tools, and workflow-based user interfaces.

• Proficiency with React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, or similar front-end technologies.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate UI development, prototyping, testing, documentation, and overall developer productivity.

• Strong Java, Python, or similar programming experience building production-grade enterprise applications.

• Experience developing cloud-based, serverless microservices, preferably on AWS.

• Strong SQL and data modeling skills using relational and columnar databases such as Oracle, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, or similar platforms.

• Experience with SDLC tooling and practices, including Git, Jira, automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, and release management.

• Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting, and production support for distributed applications.

• Experience in market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, regulatory reporting, or financial services technology preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a similar technical discipline.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex data and technology issues.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proactive in identifying risks, escalating issues appropriately, and following through to resolution.

• Strong time management and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer. We practice equal opportunity for all, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with qualified disabilities, as appropriate, under applicable law.

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