Senior Java Developer

Overview

We are looking for Senior Java Developer to join ForexClear IT Development team. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of LSEG’s fastest growing entities and is embarking on a public cloud migration.

The candidate must have a Science orientated degree and Java development skills.

Role Summary

• As a member of the team, they will work on delivery of projects, carry out improvements and provide support on a highly critical clearing system.
• They will collaborate closely and coordinate with business users and other technology areas
• Demonstrate you are highly motivated to learn, solve problems and grow their skills.  They will require excellent communication skills to work collaboratively both within the team and across the wider organization to deliver outstanding change work.

Main Responsibilities:

• May be require to provide O/N support on rare occasions.
• Developing on a highly regulated business that is systemic to the financial markets (equivalence of a nuclear plant)
• Individual must be well-adapted in adhering to the company standards in development, testing and change governance.
• Chip in towards design solutions that can sustain our high computation and low latency business requirements.
• Work alongside quants, business analysis and product owners to drive the right solution
• Help drive our agile philosophy
• Accountable for project delivery from inception to production, including budget, timelines and technical debt

Required Skills:

Key Skills

• Has experience in hands-on commercial software development, and is looking for a their next move
• Agile/Scrum development practices and principles focusing on writing high-performance, clean, quality code
• Has experience of delivering within a project team
• Learning design skills
• Good conceptual grasp of all aspects of software development gained by involvement in the full project life cycle of at least 2 major project
• Follow best in class in automation, CI/CD, technology aware and uphold agile methodologies
• Interest in being Scrum-master or agile certification
• Java 11+
• Spring Boot
• Some use of TDD/BDD frameworks e.g. Cucumber
• Awareness of standards and practices within the development team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration using both verbal and written skills.
• Development of maintenance procedures and processes for CI/CD processes to remove key person dependencies
• Ability to collaborate with others within the wider team to find the best way to resolve a technological, infrastructure, security or development issue.
• Build resilient, robust and secure features and take ownership throughout the SDLC

Desirable Skills

• Experience of finance and/or FX business.
• Experience in or certified as Scrummaster
• Desirable to have experience of high-frequency/low latency development
• Exposure to quant/pricing analytical libraries
• Use of any wider Spring ecosystem projects
• Any experience in Kafka as a messaging broker would be advantageous
• Use of monitoring frameworks such as Micrometer, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
• Front end technologies such as React, NPM and node.js
• JMS message API
• Understanding of the SDLC, Object Orientated and Functional programming.
• Linux, shell script and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, Perl
• Architectural and Design patterns of distributed systems
• Actor-based frameworks such as Akka or Quasar
• AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, Anthos on AWS, Istio and service mesh
• Good RDBMS skills such as Oracle or MySQL
• Exposure to NoSQL technologies

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits