Java Developer

Project Description:

The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm's core infrastructure platform. The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies. In particular: Building the components of a business-critical order management system using the most promising technologies and approaches for designing low-latency systems. High requirements are implied for the system's performance, fault tolerance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Be involved in the build out of a new application
• Participate in automation of routine tasks
• Participate in the design, implementation, testing and deployment of large-scale systems and services
• Support existing integrations with external systems
• Support the team with some of the DevOps tasks
• Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver software releases

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Strong Core Java & collections & multi threading (3+ years of development experience)
• Strong experience of server side development, building high availability, low latency, scalable frameworks, preferably with Open Source
• Proven hands-on experience with Java SE 8+
• Experience with Spring Framework and Spring Ecosystem
• Deep OOP expertise
• Deep parallel and concurrent programming expertise
• Ability to communicate ideas in English
• Team player - ability to get along with existing team members and learn from them (this is absolutely essential for success)
• Ability to work with minimal direction in a self-sufficient manner, often adapting to ever-changing priorities
• Focus on accuracy and attention to detail

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Solace
• Experience with Gradle
• Experience with TDD and Spock framework
• Experience with DEV and CI/CD tools: Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, ELK
• Experience with Linux and Bash
• Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Solid knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices
• Understanding of Clean code principles

English: B2 Upper Intermediate