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At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.
Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!
Franklin Templeton - Digital Assets Technology
We are hiring a Software Engineer (6 Months Contract) to join our team in Dubai. The Digital Assets Technology team at Franklin Templeton is looking for a full stack developer to support innovation projects of small to large scale. Our team is focused on delivering technology to represent shares in mutual funds with tokens issued on blockchain platform(s) in a manner which permits live trading/exchange on a potentially worldwide and 24/7 basis. We support a mobile app focused on retail investors, a website focused on institutional investors and an internal admin tool for our customer support team. We have a variety of projects to enhance the current platform as well as projects to expand our reach outside the US.
Subject to performance and business requirement, this contract may be extendable.
What are the ongoing responsibilities of this position?
Software Engineer provides expertise and experience in application development and production support activities to support business needs.
  • Refactors the codebase of applications for extensibility, structural elegance, and performance optimization purposes.
  • Reviews source code and design of peers incorporating advanced business domain knowledge.
  • Offers vocal involvement in design and implementation discussions.
  • Provides alternate views on software and product design characteristics to strengthen final decisions.
  • Develops and maintains high use, critical path libraries of functions and frameworks
  • Designs unit and integration testing approach.
  • Designs and conducts non-functional testing using software profilers and scalability tools.
  • Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of software system inter-dependencies.
  • Creates high and low level application design artifacts including process flows, data models and interfaces based on maintenance, operations, and performance standards.
  • Interprets requirements to develop and/or modify technical design specifications for off-the-shelf and/or custom-developed applications.
  • Defines and validates non-functional requirements.
  • Defines and documents the environment usage strategy.
  • Creates integration test plans.
  • Participates in defining the technology roadmap.
What qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?
  • 3 to 5 years of full stack developer experience
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate on solutions with other team members
  • Self-starter and individual thinker
  • Ability to take a problem and use resources to solve it
  • Blockchain technology knowledge/interest preferred but not required
  • Experience with Kubernetes orchestration
  • Programming/Software and Frameworks: Java, React, Python, Atlassian tools
  • Able to commit to overlapping work hours with US Eastern Time (ET) for initial training, after which as needed to support ongoing business needs
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Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
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