Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job Description:

Symphony is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer, with specialist Java and/or C++ knowledge, who has experience developing scalable, multi-tenant, high-performance applications.

Responsibilities:

Many of the teams in the Symphony Stockholm office work on Symphony Meetings (real-time voice, video and screen sharing communications). You will take on a leading role in the development of our next generation multi-tenant Meetings back-end.

• Active participation in multi-functional teams, developing new Meeting features end-to-end
• Maintain and improve existing code bases
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Build efficient and reusable abstractions and systems
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks
• Identify, establish and communicate standard methodologies for back-end engineering

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to write high-performance, reusable code
• Experienced in Object Oriented design
• Expert C++ or Java skills
• Experienced and comfortable working in a CI/CD environment
• Experience from developing real-time communication applications would be a huge plus
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Cloud experience. Familiar with AWS, GCloud or Azure
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field desirable

About Symphony:

Symphony is a secure, cloud-based workflow platform helping individuals, teams, and companies improve their productivity while maintaining the highest standards of data security and regulatory compliance. The company started out in the demanding world of global finance, bringing secure collaboration to the biggest banks and asset managers. The challenges honed the company's focus and spurred refinement and innovation of its technology. As new workplace challenges emerge, Symphony pledges to help its clients conquer them.

Today, Symphony is trusted by over 400 financial services companies including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Wells Fargo, UBS, Société Générale. The business is well funded and its investors are also customers, so Symphony is uniquely positioned for a forward-thinking future. The company is truly global with offices and customers all around the world, offering employees a unique global workplace and perspective.

Employee satisfaction is important to the company's leadership team. In 2019, 82% of employees said they were proud to work for the company. Symphony is a fun place to work where individual and team achievement is celebrated.