Technical Lead–April 2025
Role
At Star our engineering function is organised into multiple product team spanning across the Star Compliance platform, with this role within the Compliance Control Room (CCR) Suite Each team consists of engineers and QAs, working alongside Product Owners and Product Managers.
Reporting directly to the Engineering Lead, your role will cover coaching, mentoring, and line managing a number of developers alongside staying hands on with development within the team.
Star has a culture of continuous learning and improvement. We invest heavily in training of our engineers through Pluralsight and industry-relevant certifications.
Responsibilities
- Line management, coaching and mentoring of software developers
- Deliver new features and functionality that will enhance our customer experience, improve efficiency and effectiveness of our core systems.
- Build new services and APIs
- Improve and enhance DevOps processes
- Play a key role in all design and strategic technical evolution
Essential Skills & Experience
- Coaching and mentoring software developers
- Proficient with the Microsoft .NET framework and development environment including C#, ASP.NET MVC, NHibernate (or Entity Framework) and Visual Studio
- Experience of web-based client-side technologies e.g JavaScript, React, Angular, HTML
- A good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and Design
- Commercial experience of working on an enterprise level application
- A proven track record overseeing the development of a large / complex project
- Experience of relational database management systems (e.g.SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
- Strong interpersonal skills, working with internal technical staff and key stakeholders
- Practical experience of analysing requirements and recommending solutions
- Ability to quickly learn new technical skills
Desirable
- Line management
- Experience defining, implementing or supporting software in financial services industry
- Experience of building applications in an Azure cloud infrastructure such as Web Apps, Functions, Service Bus and Cloud Storage.
Top Skills
What We Do
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption.
Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.
