About the position
Play a vital role in shaping the future of an iconic company and make a direct impact in a dynamic environment designed for top achievers. As a Senior Associate Software Engineer within the Exotic Equity Derivative Sales and Trading Platform team, you will help promote the delivery of a best-in-class platform that provides intra-day pricing, workflow, hedge execution, and client connectivity for a wide range of complex financial products. You will combine strong hands-on development skills with involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, drawing on your deep experience. You will promote the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements gathering to design, development, testing, deployment, and support. You should be passionate about working in a fast-moving environment, collaborating across a global team of multiple disciplines, and engaging in an agile development process. You should be excited about working with new technologies and continually learning and evolving your skillset.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.
- Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
- Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
- End-to-end ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
- Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.
- Ensure technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.
- Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
- Provide 3rd Level production support - analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics or other technical major.
- Over 5 years' experience in application development with recent hands-on responsibilities.
- Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skillsets.
- Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17.
- Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, REST based services, etc.
- Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, GC tuning, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities.
- Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs.
- Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products.
- Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
