Job Description

Junior Java Developer - FX Electronic trading

Junior Java developer and system integrator for Global Markets FX E-trading and E-Distribution system. This is a real-time in-house built system.

We are looking for a junior developer who is willing to take on all aspects of the development lifecycle. This includes both coding and non-coding (deployment, system integration, paperwork) tasks.

Team

Working in a fast-paced team, you will work to improve the low latency, scalability, and speed of their current trading platform, as well as a new feature, builds. Your work is largely autonomous and hands-on, situated in the interface of the Front office trading Development team.

Key Responsibilities

• You will participate in the full software development lifecycle of the interface of FX trading systems, up to the delivery of the successful project
• Hands-on Java server-side coding to build a real-time FX, Bonds and Equities E-Trading and E-Distribution system.
• Full-stack development. Primarily server side coding using the Spring framework with some front-end web development in ReactJS.
• Writing of test scripts.
• Dev L3 support.
• Build, deployment and release tasks. Production releases are done over weekends on a rotational basis.
• Related system integration and infrastructure tasks, eg. basic webserver, database, middleware configuration.
• Create the necessary documentation and paperwork required throughout the development lifecycle.
• Working in a flexible Agile environment
• Analysis, proposing, building, testing, fixing, and integrating the new software, as well as enhancements of currently built solutions.
• Analysis and improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the platform.
• Cooperation and collaboration with technical and business teams

Basic Qualifications

• 2 to 3+ years experience in Java
• Bachelor Degree in computer science or similar.

Other requirements

• Familiarity with working in a full stack capacity within an agile team.
• Ideally have worked on both front-end and server-side.
• Experience with Java
• Knowledge of Spring framework.
• RESTful API development.
• Experience with relational databases, especially Oracle.
• Comfortable using Maven, Git and Bitbucket.
• Optional: JavaScript.
• Optional: Knowledge of ReactJS or another popular JS framework.
• Optional: Microservices architecture, bash scripting.
• Experience in building scalable and distributed systems
• Knowledge in FX trading
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to "think outside the box"
• Good knowledge of Linux
• Proficient with SQL
• Clear communication skills
• Multithreading

Technologies Used

• Core Java

• AngularJS

• Springboot

• SQL

• MQ/Kafka