"Java Backend Developer"

Lake Mary, FL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are seeking talented Senior hands-on Java Developers to join our core Fixed Income team in lead and support roles. To help design develop and implement our applications to support front office and operations groups. Work cross-functionally with various stakeholders trading teams and technology departments to ensure our applications are running at optimal performance. You will take a hands-on approach to understanding business workflows and the products we work with. You will help re-engineer and modernize our platform and drive our migration to a scalable microservice cloud-based architecture.

Responsibilities:

As a development lead will be responsible to Build design Trading Channels Messaging Channels interfacing with other venues and exchanges using industry standard protocols

Operate mission-critical systems and deliver day-to-day enhancements across front office and Operations

Provide technical oversight around major Fixed Income E-Commerce Project

Design and develop core components in Java

Create and implement system testing procedures

Collaborate and work with other teams in a platform operating model

Analyze and support vendor software

Stakeholder management

Project Prioritization

Delivery & Maintenance for the applications within Equities domain

Provide second level support

Usage of AI tools like Gitlab/Windsurf/ Co-Pilot

Develop Unit Test Cases with a view to integration into CI/CD pipeline

Qualifications:

Bachelors or higher degree in computer science/ engineering or a related discipline or equivalent work experience required

10 years of experience in software development required

5 years of experience working with Fixed Income Products and Associated Electronic Workflows

Strong proficiency with Java SQL and Git

Very good understanding of industry standard trading protocols like FIX FpML

Proficiency with Data Standards & Data Modelling

Proficiency with text-based formats like XML & JSON

Strong Proficiency with messaging frameworks MQ / Kafka

Proficiency with Spring Spring Boot Spring Integration

Familiarity with testing patterns and dev ops

Familiarity with cloud / containerization

Comfortable in Windows and Linux environments

Desired Skills and Experience:

Experience in the securities or financial services industry with focus on Fixed Income Products Treasuries Corporate Bonds Agencies Commercial Paper Mortgages.

Hands-on experience and working knowledge of Order Management Systems Smart Order Routers Market Data Aggregator

Previous experience designing and implementing new systems and features independently

Developed market data feeds and feeds to downstream systems

Understanding of trade life cycle events for fixed income

Understanding of regulatory landscape from a developer perspective

Brings production support experience and can troubleshooting issues under pressure

Previous experience with application profiling and debugging

Familiarity with Angular & Python is plus

Strong communication and organization skills