Java Software Engineer

Project Description:

You'll be working in the Investment Bank IT (Agency Trading - Market Engineering Crew) team in Pune. Our role is to manage global applications, providing oversight, support, analysis, and solutions that implement a strategic architecture. This position is for a senior Java developer to join the Agency Trading - Market Engineering team to make valuable contributions to both the existing platform and play a pivotal role in the build-out of our strategic middle office solution using the proprietary state-of-art low latency framework. We're a global team and work around the clock to provide best-in-class solutions.

You are:

• Able to deliver from conception through to production, streamlined, high-availability, high-performance, high-quality, well-tested, and easy-to-support software in a timely manner
• Accountable with a strong sense of ownership of your system and will continually strive to improve it
• Proactive about addressing any deficiencies, risks, and stability problems by helping to develop & refine software, tools, processes, procedures, and documentation
• Focused on quality
• Aware of ongoing technology trends and know pragmatically leverage their benefits
• Quick learner
• Comfortable working independently, as well as in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities:

Are you passionate about bringing systems to life? Do you have a curious nature, always interested in how to innovate? We're looking for someone like that to help us:

• Turn business requirements into technically sound solutions
• Take full responsibility for coding, unit testing, and delivery
• Work in close harmony with a global team, operating in multiple locations
• Support the team as it establishes agile methods
• Ensure industry standards of risk management are met, working closely with management, BAs, and end users to safeguard the firm against regulatory issues
• Support front-to-back testing, working with QA, BAs, and end users where necessary
• Handle the end user ad-hoc requests for support on technical & functional issues
• Support the production releases and manage the infrastructure issues

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in core Java development and good concepts in OOPS, Collections, API design, and multithreading
• Hands-on Unix experience with shell scripting
• Good experience in unit testing using JUnit
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment
• Clear concepts in Git version control and branching strategy
• Strong experience in managing deliverables, risks, and stakeholders
• Strong communication skills, ability to understand business requirements, and explain system behaviour to users

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Understanding of the FIX protocol
• Understanding of low-latency, source events-based, and microservice architecture
• Knowledge of Investment Bank cash equities front / middle office