Senior Java Developer

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>dxFeed, a leading provider of data solutions for the global financial industry, is looking for experienced Java/Kotlin developers to join our distributed cross-functional team. We are focusing on the development of the high performance backend systems providing solutions in the field of financial technology combining expertise in software development and mathematics. </p><p>We expect great productivity and code quality from candidates as well as technical leadership which potentially could turn out to be a team or technical leader role.</p><p>To build our broad product lineup we are using different technologies and stacks best suitable for specific solutions:</p><ul><li><p>Spring, Caffeine, Netty and other frameworks to ease data manipulation and distribution;</p></li><li><p>low latency messaging framework to distribute millions of messages per second to thousands of clients;</p></li><li><p>data storage and compression services to store and deliver hundreds of terabytes of data to our institutional and retail customers;</p></li><li><p>AWS (EC2, ELB, EBS, S3, etc) to make our systems highly available and easily scalable;</p></li><li><p>Hazelcast for distributed caching and application scaling.</p></li></ul><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Typical tasks include (but not limited to) the following:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Development of new and enhancement of existing services in Java / Kotlin for data processing, real-time and historical analysis for the whole universe of financial data that we deliver.</p></li><li><p>Development of a specialized language for processing financial time series data, high-performance queries and strategy definitions, including a JIT compiler and tools.</p></li><li><p>Development of high-performance mission-critical services for receiving, processing, storing and distributing financial information from external sources.</p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Key responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li><p>participate in the development of one or more dxFeed products, working in a team of 3 to 8 developers;</p></li><li><p>design resilient and scalable system architectures, research into the newest software technologies and development tools as well as the project domain;</p></li><li><p>become an owner of implemented solutions and components; </p></li><li><p>continuous innovation for services and technology stack.</p></li></ul><p><br/><strong>Key requirements:</strong></p><ul><li><p>willingness to take responsibility, result-oriented mindset;</p></li><li><p>solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures;</p></li><li><p>great knowledge of Core Java;</p></li><li><p>desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues and ability to take part in deep-going discussions to find out the right way to design or implement the system;</p></li><li><p>Upper-intermediate English to be able to communicate efficiently with the team and clients.</p></li><li><p>3+ years of software development in commercial projects;</p></li></ul><p><br/><strong>Additional skills considered an advantage:</strong></p><ul><li><p>BS/MS degree in Computer Science;</p></li><li><p>experience in software development for financial or brokerage businesses;</p></li><li><p>understanding of parallel programming, experience in multithreaded application development;</p></li><li><p>understanding of relational databases design, SQL knowledge, working experience with PostgreSQL;</p></li><li><p>experience in development of distributed software systems with strong performance and reliability requirements;</p></li><li><p>knowledge of Kotlin;</p></li><li><p>knowledge of Unix-family OS;</p></li><li><p>knowledge of methodologies and principles of application lifecycle management, experience with bug tracking, version control and requirements’ management systems. </p></li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p><strong>Perks:</strong></p><ul><li>flexible schedule;</li><li>Work from home opportunity;</li><li>Work from anywhere opportunity;</li><li>30 working days of vacation in a year;</li><li>additional Accident insurance;</li><li>modern, well-equipped office next to the English garden and with the panoramic views of the Alps;</li><li>parking space in the office;</li><li>reimbursement of lunch expenses;</li><li>monthly vouchers;</li><li>parents bonuses;</li><li>corporate events;</li><li>language courses.</li></ul>