Job Description

As a member of our Asset Management Technology team, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices.
We are looking for a high calibre Java Software Engineer with strong technical skills and a passion for developing outstanding technology solutions. This role will be responsible for designing and developing an application which will be used by banking professionals to allow them to manage the portfolios of our global client base. Working with technology leads, developers and banking professionals you will: design, code, develop and test services base on modern cloud first architecture to build next generation investment management platform.

Successful candidate:
Around 5+ years of experience in a financial service environment with a focus in trading/portfolio management applications.
Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages & development toolkits.
Has to demonstrate interest in financial markets, and have ability to communicate directly with the business users.
Ensure overall quality of deliverables is consistent with defined standards and Agile development practice
Will be responsible for full lifecycle: Coding, Compiling, Unit testing, integration, packaging and deployment of application software and support of the application.
Highly motivated, hardworking and detail-oriented, enthusiatic to learn new technologies.

Core Responsibilities:
Led development & deliery of order service to provide realtime positions to portfolio management systems.
Hands-on application development using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST. Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable & testable code.
Design, analyze, develop, unit testing (TDD) and regression automation (BDD) to deliver product backlog for large and complex projects.
Effective delivery with an agile scrum team, practicing Agile methodologies including, but not limited to, story grooming, sprint planning, complexity analysis, standup calls, and sprint retrospectives.
Team player and ability to work in Global Team setup, product owners and business team to develop, build & contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle & post production support.
Communicate and collaborate on development items with global team, as well as raise/work to resolve issues impacting development.
Adhere to firm-wide architecture standards, risk management and security policies.
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization, participate in quality assurance, peer reviews and code reviews.

Technical skills:
Strong hands-on Java/J2EE/Spring Framework experience in developing large scable application.
Strong experience in messaging technologies and integration tools like Kafka, MQ, JMS.
Strong knowledge of SQL and RDBMS Systems - Oracle, MySQL. Experience in distributed in-memory data stores (Ex Redis, Apache Ignite, MemSQL etc) is desirable.
Proficient utilizing development tools like Cucumber, Selenium , JUnit, Mockito and JMete. Knowledge of SCM & Build Tools - Git, Jenkins, SONAR, Gradle, Maven.
Demonstrable experience in software design using well known methodologies like DDD, BDD, TDD, OML .
Experience of React, NodeJS, AngularJS or other Web frameworks. Experience of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and JSON highly desirable
Experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker will be advantageous.
Knowledge of FIX protocol & trade/order management systems.