Java Developer

Java Developer

Our Client is a leading financial services consultancy who are looking to hire a sold Java Developer to join their team to support the modernisation of a major banks transaction reporting engines. The systems are highly available and support large trading volumes from their desks in NY, London and Asia.

You will be joining an international development team across the UK, US & Ireland supported by a team of Business Analysts and QA Engineers. The role encompasses the development of core server-side functionality and optimisations. The role does not involve deployment or support of the application.

Responsibilities Include:

• Building highly-available, fault-tolerant code
• Identifying problems and code reverse engineering.
• Test Driven Development with appropriate unit tests for every functional change.
• Working with the BA team to complete Spikes and analyse issues.
• Supporting the QA team for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Working with the wider Dev team to ensure the success of each Sprint.
• Balancing technical implementation with the business schedule and deadlines.
• Collaboration with Scrum Master and wider management team when required.

Skills:
Must Have:

• 3+ years of experience and excellent knowledge of Core Java (i.e. Collections, Generics and Functional Programming etc.).
• An ability to break down a problem and present a logical solution or next step to solving a problem.
• Very Experienced in source code control and CI Systems (i.e. git/bit bucket/stash, Jenkins etc.).
• Comfortable with modern IDEs (Eclipse and IntelliJ).
• Experience with build automation and dependency management tools like Gradle.
• Experience with IoC frameworks like Spring.
• Experience with RDBMS (Sybase, DB2 and PostgreSQL).
• Comfortable working across both Windows and Unix.
• An ability to work independently and reach out to the team for support in a timely fashion.
• Good written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks like MIFID, EMIR, SFTR and FRTB.
• Experience in Investment banking and an understanding of Financial Products and Life Cycle Events.

Interested?
Apply via the online application form.

Agency calls are not appreciated.