Senior Java Developer

Project Description:

This Project is for one of the global investment management firm founded in 1989 that manages approximately $48.3 billion in assets as of March 21, 2021. The firm has more than 2,800 employees with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Teams work collaboratively to drive the production of trading algorithms and financial strategies - the foundation of a sustainable, global trading platform.

Our team builds the next generation of trading applications and tools, including systematic and quantitative trading.
To enable and control trading teams, we seeking leading talent to evolve and scale offerings.

The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm's core infrastructure platform.

The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies.

You will:

• Have a of of cross-teams communications in English
• Build the next generation of trading applications and tools (including systematic and quantitative trading)
• Be a key contributor in the design and implementation of the portfolio management infrastructure
• Engage with various technology and data teams within the firm in enabling the above
• Manage technical risks and build prototypes or POCs where needed to validate technical approach
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Become a part of:

• Mature team with an entrepreneurial culture, where professionalism, ownership, and excellence are highly valued, whilst wholesome work/life balance is maintained.
• Positive, friendly and very supportive environment with open communication and constructive feedback practices.

Benefits and perks:

• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• Opportunities for career and professional growth
• Global company
• Business-domain specific courses
• Training programs for technical & functional skills
• Onboarding relocation package
• Sports and leisure activities
• Informal team events

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the design, implementation, testing and deployment of large-scale systems and services
• Understand system dependencies and limitations
• Understand the business need
• Understand the large scale thinking and approach
• Understand low level design
• Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver software releases

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Strong Core Java & collections & multi threading (3+ years of development experience)
• Strong experience of server side development, building high availability, low latency, scalable frameworks, preferably with Open Source
• Proven hands-on experience with Java SE 8+
• Deep OOP expertise
• Deep parallel and concurrent programming expertise
• Ability to communicate ideas in English
• Team player - ability to get along with existing team members and learn from them (this is absolutely essential for success)
• Ability to work with minimal direction in a self-sufficient manner, often adapting to ever-changing priorities
• Focus on accuracy and attention to detail
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experiences

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience developing large-scale enterprise software
• Experience with JUnit
• Experience with TDD
• Experience with Ant, Maven, Gradle
• Experience with Git
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with Jenkins is a plus
• Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Solid knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices
• Understanding of Clean code principles

Languages:

• English: C1 Advanced