Software Engineer - Java
Software Engineer - Java
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Job Description
The Fixed Income Applications development team is focused on building and supporting a reference data system. The teams responsibilities span request/responsebased metadata distribution for various financial products (bonds futures options FX spots/forwards deposits swaps commodities swaptions cdx cds equities etc) dealing with batch and ondemand security creation and updates building infrastructure for keeping the metadata current and accurate and providing multiple means of dissemination to downstream systems (such as analytics risk and trader systems). While not a lowlatency system it is perceived as a high availability cluster capable of serving both existing securities and securities created upon request based on external metadata.
Team members interact directly with operations teams and other technology teams so solid communication skills are essential. The team owns the entire software lifecycle from requirements and design through implementation to production releases and support. Release cycles are tight so in addition to strong development skills you must have demonstrated the ability to adapt to changing conditions and learn quickly.
There are no business analysts on the team so we expect developers to have sufficient business and product knowledge to understand the requirements on their own. That being said this is not a particularly Quantitative role there is a separate Analytics team that undertakes valuation and related work. We focus more on building up and supporting the technical infrastructure.
Required skills/experience:
4 years of professional experience with Java
3 years of SQL database development skills
Solid grasp of Multithreading algorithms and data structures
Familiarity with event streaming platforms like Kafka RabbitMQ etc
Resultsoriented can deliver quality code with quick turnaround
Selfstarter and critical thinker takes ownership of own projects and makes improvement suggestions for the entire infrastructure
Preferred skills/experience:
Fixed income product knowledge would be a plus
Spring/Spring Boot experience
Experience with vendor feeds (Bloomberg SAPI/BPIPE Markit)
Distributed caching (e.g. Hazelcast REDIS Memcached Ignite Ehcache etc.
Python experience for unit testing and scripts
Employment Type
Full-Time
