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At SIMON, our Platform Specialists are responsible for being experts on the SIMON platform and raising awareness of SIMON to our retail financial advisor networks. We are looking for motivated professionals who are coachable and understand this unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in the scaling of a fast-growing start-up venture - experience in structured products is not necessary. Candidates must possess attention to detail, organizational skills, aptitude for technology and financial systems, and an ability to work within a dynamic, fast-paced environment with the expectations of this role consistently growing and expanding.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

Official press release of SIMON becoming an independent broker dealer: 

Platform Specialist

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Business Development

backend-engineer

As a SIMON Backend Engineer, you will play an integral role in designing and implementing systems that power the largest platform existing today for managed-risk financial products. We are looking for engineers who can build APIs and applications that are highly performant and intuitive. Knowledge of open-source technologies, modern web standards/best practices and distributed systems are a plus. We’re looking for candidates who like working in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about writing code, sharing ideas and building elegant and efficient systems.

How you will fulfill your potential

What we’re looking for

Senior Backend Engineer

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As a SIMON Client & X-Platform Engineer, you will be just as comfortable designing large-scale distributed systems as you are building relationships with our clients to understand the systems they’ll need to grow their business. We are looking for exceptional developers who are product-driven and are excited to work directly with clients to make SIMON integral to their day-to-day lives. You will become the technical face of the firm for our clients, comfortable working with everyone from C-level executives to developers.

Client & X-Platform Engineer

data-engineer

SIMON is looking for a Data Engineer with 1-5 years of experience.  In this role you will utilize a variety of data sets to maximize SIMON’s earnings potential.  The ideal candidate would be half computer hacker & half number-cruncher.  This role will have the ability to directly impact the business’ “bottom line” and make a substantial contribution to a growing fintech startup.

Preferred Qualifications

Data Engineer

devops-engineer

SIMON is looking for a DevOps Engineer. In this role, you will utilize strong DevOps principles and advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate SIMON strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of our clients.  We are seeking highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious DevOps Engineers who are passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.

DevOps Engineer

product-manager

SIMON is looking for a Product Manager, with 1-4 years of experience. In this role, you’ll cultivate a deep understanding of the US wealth management industry and the way that our technology is developed to scale the distribution of complex financial products.

Product Manager

senior-qa-engineer

SIMON is looking for a Senior QA Engineer with four years of experience. In this role, you’ll bring practical knowledge of agile development methodologies and engineering best practices. As a Senior QA Engineer, you’ll work closely with the Development and Testing team. The ideal candidate would be an independent individual contributor who can understand existing automation test frameworks and has an ability to enhance and implement the same and should also be able to work with other engineers and product managers to support feature-based testing.

Senior QA Engineer

senior-ui-engineer

As a SIMON UI Engineer, you will define and implement the interfaces that power the largest Structured Products platform in existence today, and help to expand it to other product classes. We are looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about building elegant, powerful user interfaces. If you often find yourself thinking about front-end performance optimizations, the intricacies of React, Redux, and Webpack, the best ways to architect front-end application code, or the best experience when trying to visualize large datasets, read on.

Bonus Qualifications

Senior UI Engineer

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SIMON is looking for a Senior UX/UI Product Designer with a strong interest and capability in designing highly innovative and engaging user experiences for our cutting-edge financial application. The individual must have an eye for functional design and possess technical skills to synthesize high-level concepts and ideas into concrete high-fidelity designs. The individual must be able to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently to bring simplicity and user friendliness to meet client needs and vision. We are looking for an individual who is passionate, creative, and enthusiastic, with an ability to fluidly adapt to new UX design challenges and problem solve in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Senior UX/UI Product Designer

Engineering

digital-content-specialist

We are looking for a passionate, strategically and conceptually strong Digital Content Specialist to lead all aspects of multimedia storytelling and support a thriving brand across our corporate website, main social media handle, and other digital channels.  As our Digital Content Specialist, you will rethink the status quo and apply your journalistic skillset and marketing experience to industry-leading, beautifully designed communications. Driving the end-to-end editorial process from ideation, writing, editing, fact-checking, and proofreading for all digital content, you will ensure content is optimized for each channel with the appropriate branded voice and brand attributes. You will collaborate closely with our UX Product Writer as well as key stake holders on the Digital Experience/Research/Product/Legal teams to keep content fresh, overseeing quality assurance, and maintaining channel content schedules to effectively track content produced by different teams. 

This role is critical to supporting the innovations behind SIMON’s brand by integrating closely with a team of high performers. Candidates must be motivated to modernize campaign practices with work behind-the-scenes—both independently and within a team environment—to seamlessly execute on deliverables. Taking initiative, attention to detail, sound decision making, time-management, and the ability to respectfully manage up are requisite skills for all SIMON employees, and particularly important for this position. Strong candidates must be bright, energetic, highly disciplined, flexible to the growing needs of a startup, and excited to work in a fast-paced, achievement-oriented, entrepreneurial environment.

Digital Content Specialist

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We are looking for a Digital Marketing Specialist with the proven ability to create winning strategies and launch new initiatives, influencing across and collaborating with cross-functional and external partners to drive results. As our Digital Marketing Specialist, you will use your experience to drive acquisition performance with end-to-end marketing experiences across the paid search journey, and lead creative testing to inform future creative direction across audience channels. Your insight will influence our digital and demand generation roadmap, and you’ll play a critical role in the launch of new innovation initiatives, including the rollout of SIMON’s creative content lab. 

Your responsibilities will include closely monitoring and proactively managing campaign performance to ensure revenue/lead-gen delivery against forecast, and effective execution will require digital acquisition experience, with other SEM and/or SEO experience a plus.

Open Positions

Business Development

Platform Specialist

Platform Specialist

Engineering

Senior Backend Engineer

Client & X-Platform Engineer

Data Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Product Manager

Senior QA Engineer

Senior UI Engineer

Senior UX/UI Product Designer

Marketing and Design

Digital Content Specialist

Digital Marketing Specialist