Senior Full-Stack Web Developer

Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices around the world, Mesirow serves clients through capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets and Investment Banking, and Advisory Services. We are proud that our intentional culture results in strong employee engagement, entrepreneurship and empowerment, with ongoing opportunities for volunteerism and advancement.  Mesirow was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by Crain’s Chicago Business and one of the Top 100 RIA firms by Barron’s.  At Mesirow, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities, and our culture.

We are seeking an energetic, enthusiastic, and eager to learn professional to join our Web development team as a Full-Stack Developer. The ideal candidate must have demonstrable experience building business-oriented solutions using SPAs and have strong understanding of Modern Web Development stack. The candidate must be self-motivated, detail oriented with strong analytical thinking, and organizational skills. This role provides opportunities to gain experience in DevOps, middle-tier, backend development, and financial services integrations (Black Diamond and Fidelity).

Responsibilities:

• Build rich visual and reusable components for complex financial systems
• Participate in creating and translating wireframes, UI mocks from user stories
• Develop client and internal facing features ensuring technical feasibility of the UI/UX designs
• Develop quality code paired with unit testing coverage
• Maintain and support existing solutions
• Translate business requirements into functional code

Qualifications:

• Experience building Single-Page Application (SPAs) using MERN stack. AWS DocDB, Express, React, Node.js
• Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Styled-Components, Type-Definitions, Typescript is a plus
• Experience with deploying to Mobile app stores (Apple and Google)
• Experience with maintaining build pipelines with YAML configuration
• Experience with building for the Cloud in AWS
• Strong understanding and experience working with RESTful API using best practices
• Strong understanding of Modern Web Technologies, Microservices, Component Hierarchy, REST Security
• Exposure and ability to lean and adopt new technologies
• Strong understanding or experience in TDD and DDD is a plus
• Familiarity with code versioning such as GIT