Java Developer

Your job will involve:

• Developing code for the service-layer of a large-scale rich internet application.
• Being a part of a high-performing team on a high-profile project.
• Collaborating closely with the Business, Client-Side Developers, Quality Assurance and User

Experience professionals.

• Mastering state-of-the-art technologies and a complex business domain.
• Solving challenging problems in elegant ways.
• Sharing knowledge across the project team.
• Taking pride in the quality of software delivered for each development iteration.

You are a software engineer with:

• Expertise in fundamentals of computing science including data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in modern core Java (post java 5) with knowledge of low-level parts of API like

collections, multi-threading, Java 5 concurrency utilities, IO/NIO and Sockets.

• Clean coding skills and excellent problem solving ability.
• Fluency with design patterns and refactoring techniques.
• Fluency in unit testing / testing frameworks (JUnit / JMock / EasyMock / JMockit etc).
• Fluency with platforms and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc), application servers (Apache,

Tomcat, JBoss, etc) and relational databases (Oracle, Sybase or SQL Server).

• Experience with web services (RESTful and SOAP) and messaging systems.
• Experience with NoSql databases (Cassandra, Neo4j, Redis) and understanding of different

types.

• Fluency with UNIX and Windows command line tools.
• Fluency with other modern/popular languages (groovy, javascript)
• Knowledge of agile development practices (Scrum, XP, Kanban etc)
• Experience with source control systems (Perforce, Subversion, Mercurial, Git), build tools and continuous integration (Ant, Maven, TeamCity, Hudson, Sonar etc.)
• Experience with project and issue tracking tools (JIRA, Rally, Version1, etc.)

It would be desirable for the candidate to have:

• Experience working within an investment bank.
• Experience profiling and performance tuning code.
• Experience with single-sign on (SSO) solutions.
• Experience with data streaming / real time PUSH technologies (LCDS, LightStreamer, Nirvana,

etc).

• Experience with cloud computing, virtualization, distributed data and computing platforms.
• Some Interest in user interfaces and good writing skills.

You must be highly motivated with an eye for detail, strong communication skills and a track record of delivering successful projects into production.

The candidate will be joining the IT team within Investment Bank to develop a new on-line trading application with state-of-the-art technologies.