About Us
BEAM Financial Solutions is an early stage IT venture in the institutional financial services space.
BEAM has made significant progress on the development of its platform - a green-field, multi-tenanted software-plus-services based trading and risk management platform. A key element in BEAM's strategy is to ensure that, once delivered, this platform will become a critical production application for tier 1 and tier 2 institutions on Wall Street, in London, and in other key trading venues globally. The platform will be scalable, reliable, secure and performant.
BEAM has significant financial backing from a strong and supportive US based consortium of investors. BEAM’s founders have several decades of experience working at senior levels within top tier investment banks in New York and London, and gained extensive experience within the target market segment. Founders and sponsors have strong and well-developed networks amongst financial institutions globally, and particularly so in New York and London.
The founders and sponsors believe that BEAM's agility and its best of breed technology organisation will be key drivers in the commercial success of the venture.
BEAM Financial Solutions utilises leading organisations with a global remit for audit, taxation and legal matters.
We are located in the center of Dublin, a minute's walk from Grafton Street and St.Stephen's Green.
We are also proud sponsors of the Dublin ALT.NET community.
Developer Environment
We pride ourselves on using the best tools to work with including, but not limited to:
- Dell T7500 2.66 GHz Quad Core Xeon workstation with 4GB Ram and an Intel X25M SSD, or equivalent.
- Triple 24" monitors
- Ergohuman chair and your own choice of keyboard and mouse
- Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, Resharper, DotCover, Pex, Code Contracts, Asp.net MVC, DevExpress, WPF
- Teamcity for Continous Integration, psake as the build runner and NuGet / OpenWrap for package management
- Open source libraries such as Nhibernate, FluentNhibernate, OpenRasta, Xunit, Moq, Ninject, FluentMigrator
- Jira Studio for source control, issue tracking, agile planning, wiki and code review
- Purpose built code pairing station in private team room
The Joel Test
Based on the updated for 2010 version:
- Do you have a change management system? Yes
- Can everyone make a build in one step? Yes
- Do your daily build include automated tests? Yes
- Is work item tracking integrated with source control? Yes
- Do you fix bugs and write new code? Yes
- Do you track progress and manage change? Yes
- Do you have a requirements management system? Yes
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions and teaming rooms? Yes
- Do you use the best tools money can buy? Yes
- Are your testers involved in requirements management? Yes
- Do new candidates review code during their interview? Yes
- Do you do hallway usability testing? Yes
Of course, there is always room for improvement, but we're proud to try to be the best team we can.