Investment Banking - Tier 1 Bank
- Contract: 12 months + extension (inside IR35) - Long-term project
- Location: London, UK
- Flexi: Hybrid (1 - 2 days per week onsite)
Core experience:
- Java development
- Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD)
- Financial Markets Front Office Trade life cycle
- Distributed computing
Summary
The successful candidate will be a key contributor on a team building our ETD capabilities as we migrate approx. 1/3 of the volume away from Legacy platforms. This is a project with high visibility, demanding time-lines, high delivery expectations and needs responsible, mature, motivated developers with a proven track record. We want people driven by the mission who are familiar with Front Office technology product delivery and requirements. We would expect the successful candidate to consider moving to a permanent position if possible at the appropriate time, if it was a mutual good fit.
- Be a proactive, self-starting developer who can quickly understand the requirements, technology platform and external integrations and start designing and contributing to the delivery.
- Liaise with devops and wider team to effectively manage resource usage
- Apply your experience of financial markets electronic trade capture, booking and full life cycle to build these features into our platform
- Work within the ever-evolving framework of Financial Markets specifications and regulations to ensure CAT is using best-in-class technology within the boundaries of approved technologies
- Build services with an API-first approach and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions - optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control
- Implement and enforce safe defensive coding, intelligent design, access control, in low-maintenance supportable applications
- Support database integration/migration (postgres/mongo) caching (hazelcast), communication (solace), security (hashicorp, SSO tokens, Kong integration)
- Effectively and proactively manage resource usage
- Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance
- Provide Production L3 support as required, to this delivery and the wider platform. We have users from Asia to New York, and you'll be part of a global team of developers
- Face-off and partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions - deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role
- Question/Challenge anything you see from your peers or the wider squad that isn't up to standard.
Core Qualifications
- At least 8/10 years experience designing, developing mission critical systems in Java as the primary language
- In-depth core Java knowledge, with demonstrable experience of zero-garbage
- Proven experience in Real Time, scalable systems, garbage collector, queuing, scheduling, complex events processing (CEP)
- Understanding of Financial Markets processes around pricing, booking, golden sources of data etc.
- Experience in all or some of these: hazelcast, google guice, solace, gprc
- Understanding and demonstrable experience of modern architecture/designs - micro-services/API-first development/high-throughput/event-driven/agent-based system, compositional frameworks
The successful candidate is expected to be an experienced developer in designing, building, deploying and supporting critical solutions in the Financial Markets domain. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities
Thanks for considering us!