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Software Engineer - Fundamentals Data
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Job Title:Software Engineer - Fundamentals Data Job type: Permanent Location:London Head Office, Holborn Reporting Relationship: Lead Engineer Argus is a fast-growing global B2B media company providing essential information on commodity markets. As a business, we continue to grow and evolve, adding new markets, new services, new delivery options and improved analytical tools. Job purpose Software Engineers are responsible for implementing internal and customer facing applications at Argus. Technology is central to our continued growth and as such we have invested heavily in our in-house development and data science teams who deliver industry leading digital data solutions. The development teams use some of the latest technologies working on greenfield projects and applying modern development practices. The Fundamentals Data team is responsible for creating pipelines to ingest fundamentals and other data from different sources and providing ways to access it to internal teams and external clients, including APIs and web applications. Working as part of the Argus technology department in our central London office, you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of world class digital data products for our key strategic data, pricing and fundamental initiatives. Software Engineers work with and are supported in this role by: * Senior Software Engineers who provide expertise and guidance * QA engineers, responsible for testing software in development and production * A Lead Engineer who has final accountability for the application Key responsibilities * Solving real life problems in software to enhance our applications. * Contributing to SCRUM meetings, estimates, documentation and other parts of the software development lifecycle. * Working to improve your own technical expertise and keep abreast of new developments in software design. Essential skills and experience * Software development in C# * RDBMS development * A broad understanding of operating systems, networks, web systems, design patterns and good coding practices * The ability to code to a commercial standard, including unit testing, appropriate use of frameworks and SOLID principles * The AWS platform, including CloudWatch, CloudFormation, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS * Able to work as part of a scrum team * Curiosity Desirable skills and experience The following are all technical areas that Argus uses or plans to use extensively. Experience and/or interest in one or more of them will be helpful * Message queue systems * ElasticSearch * Advanced SQL * Agile development methodology * Python / R * Front end development, preferably Angular About Argus Media Argus is an independent media organisation with over 1,000 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 23 offices in the world's principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences. Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes. Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic and Hg. Benefits Our rapidly-growing, award winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognises and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success. * Competitive salary and company bonus scheme * Group pension scheme * Group healthcare and life assurance scheme * 25 days holiday with annual increase up to 30 days * Subsidised gym membership * Season ticket travel loans * Cycle to work scheme * Extensive internal and external training Apply If this aligns with your next career move, we'd love to hear from you.