Senior Java Developer

Job Description:

Our Company’s market leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTC’s for the exotic derivatives business. This is a complex business area requiring smart, innovative, and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales and quants. As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a program of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready, horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing and workflow strategy and tooling. Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between New York, London, Montreal, Hong Kong and Mumbai. We have a strong development team in New York where many of our business sponsors are also located. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.

Role Profile:

1. You will be a technically proficient and enthusiastic developer, with a desire to work on back-end application development.
2. You will support and lead different phases of the product lifecycle including analysis, development and testing.
3. You will develop new and existing components in Java. Previous commercially proven experience is required, with a strong desire to develop your skills more widely.
4. Additionally, there is an opportunity to work with front end application development in HTML 5, Angular.
5. You will be a proactive member of an agile development team, focusing on efficient application delivery to meet business KPI’s.
6. You will be expected to promote best practices in terms of TDD, development tools and technologies.
7. You will be a proactive member of an agile team, taking part in ceremonies and interact with business owners and stakeholders as well as other agile teams across the fleet.
8. The role will involve constant interaction with front office business users, analyzing and gathering requirements.
9. The role requires good collaboration with members from the wider global team, as well as neighboring teams and systems such as pricing.
10. Equity derivatives product knowledge is not a pre-requisite but it is advantageous.

Skills required (essential):

1. Practical Experience building Java Applications.
2. Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.
3. Experience of Agile development techniques and a deep understanding of systems engineering, build and release management principles including continuous integration and continuous delivery.
4. Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance / memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture.
5. Experience in sales or middle office processing systems in Equities / FX / Fixed Income / Derivation domain.

Bachelor’s Degree Required