• At least 10-12 years of software development experience

• At least 8-10 years' experience working with Java and Transact SQL

• Strong knowledge on various design patterns

• A strong understanding of recent Java language features, such as lambdas, streams, and futures

• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis

• Strong ability to analyse code - understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger

• Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests

• Strong familiarity with Linux and bash

• Good knowledge of SQL or an SQL-inspired dialect such as HQL

• Experience in cloud native architecture.

• AWS cloud architecture

• An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following:

o JupyterLab, JupyterHub, Jupter notebook, Mercury ecosystem

o Gitlab, Jenkins and Ansible with exposure to devops culture

o Jira or a similar issue-tracking system

o Python

o ElasticSearch

o Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly interest rate derivatives in their many forms (Forwards, Futures, Swaps, Swaptions, etc)