Lead Java Developer at First Derivative

Job Description:

About the role:

Our Client is a US Tier 1 multinational investment bank. We’re currently forming a team to support the modernisation of their transaction reporting engines. The systems are highly available and support a large trading volume from their desks in NY, London and Asia. Both ETD and OTC products.

You will be joining First Derivatives development team distributed between New York, London & Newry. You will also be supported by a team of First Derivative Business Analysts and QA Engineers. You will be involved in development of core server-side functionality and optimisations. The role does not involve deployment or support of the application.

Responsibilities:

• Building highly-available, fault-tolerant code
• Identifying problems and code reverse engineering
• Test Driven Development with appropriate unit tests for every functional change
• Working with the BA team to complete Spikes and analyse issues
• Supporting the QA team for Functional and Regression Testing
• Working with the wider Dev team to ensure the success of each Sprint
• Balancing technical implementation with the business schedule and deadlines
• Collaboration with Scrum Master and wider management team when required

Essential Skills & Experiences:

• 3+ years of experience and excellent knowledge of Core Java (i.e. Collections, - Generics and Functional Programming etc.)
• An ability to break down a problem and present a logical solution or next step to solving a problem
• Very Experienced in source code control and CI Systems (i.e. git/bit bucket/stash, Jenkins etc.)
• Comfortable with modern IDEs (Eclipse and IntelliJ)
• Experience with build automation and dependency management tools like Gradle
• Experience with IoC frameworks like Spring
• Experience with RDBMS (Sybase, DB2 and PostgreSQL)
• Comfortable working across both Windows and Unix
• An ability to work independently and reach out to the team for support in a timely fashion
• Good written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks like MIFID, EMIR, SFTR and FRTB
• Experience in Investment banking and an understanding of Financial Products and Life - Cycle Events

Company Benefits

• Private pension
• Bonus Scheme
• Health Insurance
• Death Cover
• Cycle to work scheme

Interview Process

• Telephone Call
• Tech Test
• Video Call
• Final Interview with management