Full Stack Java Developer

Job description

Full Stack Java Developer, Contract Job, Remote, Glasgow

Your new company
They are a well-established global investment bank, with an excellent reputation in the marketplace. This is a fantastic opportunity to join at an exciting time when they are going through a period of significant technological development.

Your new role
You will be working closely with Front Office Traders to understand new Trading requirements, provide demos of ongoing deliverables for feedback during the product development lifecycle. Collaborating closely with Sales and Traders to understand new Client requirements and provide the ability to develop and deliver those solutions. Working alongside BAs and PMs, technical leads, QA testers and Quantitative Developers, to design, develop and deliver solutions. Document new requirements in JIRA and progress them as deliverables within the team. Proactively participates in the wider project technical community on strategic platform enhancement initiatives, becoming an active participant in technical discussion meetings across multiple projects in the wider team as part of regular ongoing technical forums.

What you will need to succeed
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Excellent Java programming skills with experience in designing and developing Swing based UI alongside REST API based microservices.
• Experience of developing Java Swing UI GUI screens and working with UI Frameworks.
• Experience of developing backend Java Services to interact with Java Swing UI GUI screens.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of developing low-latency trading systems.
• Extensive knowledge of multi-threading development and performance tuning techniques.
• Experience of Java unit testing practices, ideally JUnit.
• Good knowledge of standard development and build tools, e.g. GIT, TeamCity, JUnit etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to be able to work in a globally distribution team of both colleagues and business stakeholders.
• A team player who takes the initiative and can influence the development of the system and take end to end ownership of deliverables to our colleagues.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in designing and developing UI in HTML5 using Javascript, React UI Frameworks with Docker deployment based pipelines in a cloud based architecture.
• Experience of working with a micro service architecture and grid compute technologies.
• Experience designing and developing real time high frequency front office trading systems.
• Full-lifecycle development of at least 1 large commercial system, with ideal candidate focusing on significant development of high-frequency trading or pricing systems in the Options space.
• Proven experience in working in the Investment banking, working with directly with Traders, Desk Heads and Quantitative development teams.
• Experience gained in Foreign Exchange Cash Spot and Forwards, NDF products, with extensive experience of Options/Derivatives and Money Markets

What you will get in return
This is a year-long day rate contract with high chance of further 6-month extension, giving you much needed stability during these uncertain times. This is a unique opportunity to secure a long-term contract using the latest technology. Be part of a great growing team as an agile scrum. This role offers the opportunity to work both remotely and in office. The day rate for this role is £493 per day inside of IR35.

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