Java Software Engineer

Project Description:

You'll be working in the global Fixed Income Rates and Credit markets technology team. We are a fast-paced, highly motivated, delivery-focused but friendly team, present in 8 cities in 6 countries covering the US, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Our job is to create and deliver innovative solutions for business problems whilst maintaining a complex and multifaceted platform

Responsibilities:

Are you passionate about building robust and scalable core Java server systems? Are you motivated to deliver real business value? We're looking for someone like you to help us.

• help us evolve the architecture of a complex Fixed Income Rates and Credit markets system
• deliver on strategic initiatives to support the growth of our R&C business
• collaborate with global business and IT stakeholders to understand business requirements
• design and implement solutions, writing high-quality, production-grade code
• work across the full software development lifecycle, in an agile team, using automated testing
• coordinate releases and dependencies across teams, facilitating cross-team collaboration
• take responsibility and ownership for the system, perform level 3 support to resolve production defects, and steer the production operations team in rollout and support-related matters

You are:

• passionate about what you do, you value excellence, learning and integrity
• enjoy a work environment that emphasizes teamwork, collaboration, and delivering business value while working at a sustainable pace
• someone who is technically excellent and can inspire others, to our values and culture
• proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast-paced deliveries and changing requirements
• a self-sufficient, quick learner, who can work well both independently as well as in a team
• an excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Experience 6 to 15 years in Java with emphasis on performance-critical programming
• Very strong server-side Java development, emphasis on multi-threaded performance-critical programs
• Good scripting skills (Python, Shell, etc.) and Unix
• Worked with agile SDLC and TDD methodologies, with Git/GitLab and continuous integration
• Should have worked with any messaging architectures like Kafka/JMS/MQ, etc.
• Must be a great team player, self-learner, have the ability to take ownership of tasks and take them to closure
• Should be ok to switch between tasks if needed
• Applied solutions to cater to non-functional requirements, including stability, manageability, scalability, capacity, and performance
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and synthesizing skills (you know how to figure stuff out)
• Coordinated releases and dependencies across teams
• Taken responsibility and ownership for a system

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and deployment best practices
• Exposure to any of the asset classes, FX or Rates
• Exposure to No SQL DB like MongoDB, CouchDB etc.
• Understand the sense of urgency and worked in the front office area of any investment bank
• Good to have experience working with investment banks