Location: LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
    Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
    Enhance and develop new features for risk aggregation and hedging, leveraging React and Java
    Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
    You will also collaborate with other frontend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of re-suable components to facilitate faster development. 
    Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading, Sales and Quantitative Research, UX as well as other technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
    Commercial experience working with Java 
    Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful
    Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot, messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, maven/gradle, junit mocking  frameworks) 
    Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
    Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning within a commercial setting
    Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
    Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
    Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
 

A Lead Java Engineer is required to drive the development of the next generation of features for an Equities front office quoting and booking platform. We have an exciting opportunity within an agile development team working on a best-in-class quoting and booking platform. Youll partner with top-tier engineers across our global teams, building deep expertise across the end-to-end equities swaps trade lifecycle from pre-trade workflows through post-trade processing supporting a fast-paced Equities front-office desk.