Job Description

Over the last twenty years, this company has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.

As a Core Java/Application Developer, you will work closely with your team to design and implement new features and products. You will learn the fixed-income market allowing you to fully understand the “big picture” of not only what you are developing, but why and how it benefits our customers. At the same time, you will be challenged and pushed out of your comfort zone, by learning new and exciting technologies that we want to implement here. Above all, you will be empowered by having a voice within your Scrum team as well as within the company as a whole.

This role is responsible for:

• Design and enhance the Leading Global Fixed Income e-trading platform for institutional investors
• Recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability and time to market
• Be part of and technically lead a scrum team comprised of skilled technology professionals with the goal to revolutionize the credit and corporate bond markets
• Innovate and transform business ideas into highly utilized features and services for our customers
• Share your expertise across industry standard technologies including: Java, AWS, Kafka, Oracle, React, Redis Spring Boot, Docker and others
• Implement and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity
• Architect, develop and design APIs in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture

General Support Responsibilities Include:

• Production support, including investigating and fixing production issue

Knowledge/Experience:

• 10+ years of enterprise software development using Java
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and multi-threading programming
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka/Redis etc.
• Experience with microservices using Spring/Spring Boot (or, ideally, hands-on experience migrating a monolithic application to microservices)
• Experience or knowledge of AWS, deployment process, cloud based technologies
• Good database skills

Qualifications

Skills/Personal Requirements

The company is embarking upon a significant program of change covering all elements of the organisation. As such, the role requires someone who:

• Is intelligent, confident, and able to portrait ideas in an articulate, persuasive, and convincing way
• Thrives on the challenges that change brings
• Promotes a can-do attitude and leads by example
• Can think creatively and analytically.
• Thrives on innovation
• Is very delivery focused; quick to market deliverables are key to the success of the team/company
• Good communication skills

Additional Information

Languages

• Other languages advantageous (English needs to be fluent, however)