Core Java Developer

Java Development Lead – Equity Finance Trading

The Equity Finance Technology team are seeking a software engineer to build product capabilities for the front office in New York. This role requires strong expertise in Java and the ability to work with traders, business analysts and other technologists to provide business added value through agile delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design.
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals.
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours.

Required:

• 8 to 10 plus years of strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework.
• 5 plus years’ experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices.
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
• Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, …)
• Experience working with multi-threaded applications.
• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Essential Skills:

• Strong Java Core & Enterprise
• Understanding of capital markets.
• JMS, TIBCO, Kafka
• Oracle RDBMS
• Unix and scripting skills (Bash / PERL
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the Securities Lending.
• Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
• React
• Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire)

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
• Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Ability to work on a fast-pace environment;
• Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe.