Senior Java Software Engineer

Java Developer

3 days a week in Manhattan, NYC at 750 Seventh Avenue

Must be US Citizen or Green Card as they will want to convert to full-time after 6 Months

Java developer who has experience with sales and trading platforms or middle office trade processing systems in Equities / FX / Fixed Income / Derivatives domain

Job Description:

Hybrid 3 Days a Week Onsite

Potential to Convert

Senior Java Developer

Client's market-leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world-class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTCs for the exotic derivatives business. This complex business area requires smart, innovative, and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales, trading, and quants. As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a program of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready, horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing and workflow strategy and tooling. Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between New York, London, Montreal, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. We have a strong development team in New York where many of our business sponsors are also located. We are active in many out-of-work activities both socially and by volunteering our time through various firm-sponsored initiatives.

Role Profile:

• You will be a technically proficient and enthusiastic developer, with a desire to work on back-end application development.
• You will support and lead different phases of the product lifecycle including analysis, development and testing.
• You will develop new and existing components in Java. Previous commercially proven experience is required, with a strong desire to develop your skills more widely.
• Additionally, there is an opportunity to work with front-end application development in HTML 5, and Angular.
• You will be a proactive member of an agile development team, focusing on efficient application delivery to meet business KPIs.
• You will be expected to promote best practices in terms of TDD, development tools, and technologies.
• You will be a proactive member of an agile team, taking part in ceremonies and interacting with business owners and stakeholders as well as other agile teams across the fleet
• The role will involve constant interaction with front-office business users, as well as analyzing and gathering requirements.
• The role requires good collaboration with members from the wider global team, as well as neighboring teams and systems such as pricing and trade capture.
• Equity derivatives product knowledge is not a pre-requisite but it is advantageous.

Skills required (essential):

• Practical Experience building Java Applications.
• Zest-Driven Development (TDD) experience.
• Experience in Agile development techniques and a deep understanding of systems engineering, build and release management principles including continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance/memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture.
• Experience in sales and trading platforms or middle office trade processing systems in Equities / FX / Fixed Income / Derivation domain

Bachelor's Degree: Required.