At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a scrum team to deliver innovative software solutions and enhance risk aggregation features.
- Company: Join a leading investment bank with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a commitment to employee well-being and development.
- Why this job: Make an impact in finance technology while collaborating with talented teams.
- Qualifications: Experience in Java, micro-services, and automated testing is essential.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
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.
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Contact Details:
United States Digital Space LLC Recruitment Team
