Senior Java Developer – Rates eTrading – sought by leading investment bank based in Canary Wharf – Hybrid – Contract
*inside IR35*
Job Responsibilities/Role:
- Designing and developing front office eTrading applications to the trading business
- Working directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to contribute towards the future direction of the platform.
- Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable.
- Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best
- Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process
- Mentoring strong and energetic team in EMEA region
- Serving as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts
- Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
- Assisting in third line support during core trading hours
Job Opportunities:
- Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
- Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.
Qualifications:
Required
- 10+ years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading and any relational database
- Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
- Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
Preferred
- Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux
- Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience in building systems with an attention to optimizing and tuning performance, while also demonstrating critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with ION Trading solutions
- Knowledge of major Rates Financial Products (e.g., EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SAS etc.) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
- Experience of KDB
- Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Please apply within for further details or call 07719061384 – Matt Holmes – Harvey Nash