Back End Developer

The Key Responsibilities

As a senior developer, you’ll be joining a local development team, responsible for driving forwards the specific aspect of our global platform, and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in London, your team will collaborate in a dynamic global organisation, with fellow engineers, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations. You will be expected to quickly learn existing design and coding patterns, consistently apply and collaboratively evolve them while delivering increasingly complex and exciting projects for our customers.

Participate in all stages of delivery – from requirements gathering to post-release customer support,
Build new functionality, carefully ensuring adherence to existing coding patterns,
Own and collaborate on technical design,
Break large projects into tasks, delegate them to other developers, own and coordinate the consolidated delivery of the solution,
Coach others to minimise the amount of review iterations for their deliveries,
Develop yourself towards the goal of becoming a senior full-stack developer.
The Key Requirements

Technical skills:

Versatile Java developer with good software design principles,
With 7+ years of relevant experience,
Expert in Core Java, Spring Framework, RX Java, REST, Reactive Web Services,
Experienced in micro-services and container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Docker,
Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Azure DevOps,
Experience with SQL databases and other distributed data stores, e.g. Cassandra and Hazelcast,
Experience with messaging technologies, e.g. Kafka and Solace, 
Good knowledge of design patterns and best practices,
Able to design the solution to complex and/or ambiguous business problem that may require changes in existing architecture or frameworks,
Writing efficient, clear, well-tested code, and able to articulate what was built and why,
Built complex, real-time (event-driven), transactional applications,
Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems,
Delivered features across full stack,
Preferably with React & TypeScript as frontend technology stack.

Functional skills:

Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking,
Derivatives product knowledge,
e-trading technology experience.
 

Soft skills:

Good team player, but able to deliver autonomously when required,
Effective communicator, fluent in English (speaking and writing),
Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts,
Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support complex systems.
Proactive self-starter, keen problem solver, 
With strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity.