Senior Java Developer - Rates eTrading/ION

Senior Java Developer - Rates eTrading - sought by leading investment bank based in Canary Wharf - Hybrid - Contract

*inside IR35*

Job Responsibilities/Role:

• Designing and developing front office eTrading applications to the trading business
• Working directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to contribute towards the future direction of the platform.
• Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable.
• Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best
• Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process
• Mentoring strong and energetic team in EMEA region
• Serving as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

Job Opportunities:

• Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
• Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.

Qualifications:

Required

• 10+ years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading and any relational database
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals - concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

Preferred

• Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux
• Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience in building systems with an attention to optimizing and tuning performance, while also demonstrating critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with ION Trading solutions
• Knowledge of major Rates Financial Products (e.g., EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SAS etc.) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
• Experience of KDB
• Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Please apply within for further details or call - Matt Holmes - Harvey Nash