eFX Java Dev Engineer - Associate

Department Overview:

The implementation of the Broadway application for eFX trading is a strategic project securing INGs place in a fastpaced market. This project has strict timelines with an essential focus on delivery.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role:

As a Dev Engineer in our eFX Digitalisation transformation programme you will help deliver the key milestones on the eFX Trading platform. The inhouse built highperformance pricing systems and interfaces together with the vendorbuilt trading/quoting systems timeseries databases and complex event processing engines are key platforms for the realtime lowlatency landscape in scope of the growing Financial Markets domain.

Part of a crossborder (London and Bucharest) team you work on the backlog prioritized by a Product Manager. You work with your peers (Quantdevelopers and dev engineers) and Ops team to ensure all code released to production is robust secure and bug free utilising automated testing and peertopeer code review techniques.

Delivery and Improvements:

• Design and develop new features from scratch and improve existing ones.

• Do code reviews write unit tests make code refactoring and take care of technical debt.

• Align and discuss solutions directly with eTraders.

• Work in an agile environment based on a lot of research collaboration and learn from failure way of working with highly impactful deliveries.

• Have a direct impact on the business improvements through developing and being part of the strategic deliveries.

• Provide handson support to colleagues when investigating production issues/outages.

Candidate Profile

Qualification/Education

• Essential: graduate in Computer Science or related degree.

Experience/Knowledge

• Experience: c5 years of industry experience preferably in Financial Markets

Tech stack/ knowledge:

Essential:

• Highly proficient development skills core serverside Java multithreading

• Strong design (patterns) algorithms and data structures knowledge

• Experience with the entire software development life cycle

• Experience with building services from scratch and developing on top of existing components

• Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts. Interactions with tools such as Git Azure DevOps Maven

Nice to have:

• Experience with messaging technologies and protocols

• Experience in optimising software for performance

• Banking/Financial Markets products/processes knowledge (FX Products FIX protocol)

• Flexibility in development technologies. Expected to work with different technologies and languages (KDB Proprietary Software Java Python)

• Experience with quant development pricing algorithms or trading strategies.

Personal Competencies:

Essential:

• Handson mentality

• Proactive behaviour and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance

• Ability to deliver without much supervision

• Creative learning and thinking passion for technology

• Genuine team player

Nice to have:

• Passion for mentoring junior colleagues

• Clear concise and transparent communicator

• Foreign languages: English (advanced spoken and written is a must)

• Education: Bachelors Degree (or higher) in preferably an IT related field

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