Senior Java Developer

Role Objectives
Hands-on development using Java 17 as the primary language
Work with Fixed Income sales, traders and quants to design and develop an innovative trading platform and build out APIs to integrate our bank with third-party trading platforms
Focus on non-functional requirements from the start increasing maintainability and reliability
Continuous improvement of the development and release environment, tooling, and processes
Support application design, development, and implementation of trading platforms
Qualifications and Skills
Essential skills:
Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including Concurrency; Algorithms and data structures
Proactive self-starter who is able to take initiative and roll up sleeves to get things done. Can influence cross discipline teams to achieve complex deliveries
Scrum/agile methodology (Product owner and/or Scrum master), or ability to deliver software on short cycles
Evidence of delivering applications from inception, to design, and to production
Strong core Java development skills including streams, lambdas, and advanced concurrency APIs
Extensive experience and understanding of distributed systems, developing, profiling, and maintaining multi-threaded, asynchronous applications
JVM monitoring, profiling, performance tuning, and debugging. Experience with analysis tools such as JConsole, JVisualVM, Elastic Search/Logstash, Prometheus; Open tracing
Extensive experience of test-driven development
Knowledge of CI/CD on large complex systems
Desired skills:
Investment banking experience in the trading or pricing domains, with Front-office trading tools exposure and a good understanding of f2b trade flow
Knowledge of Bloomberg TOMS, MarketAxess, Tradeweb, ION, or other third-party trading platforms is a plus
Hands-on experience with dynamic scalability; cloud deployment (EKS/Nomad), container/docker deployment, GRPC services, Cloud based services (Prometheus, Elastic Search, databases, Redis),
Experience with Kafka or event processing thru message bus
Experience with Workflow/Scheduling/State management