Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
As part of an ongoing program of change, the role will be to work within an existing Scrum team whose Product backlog includes
- development of the algorithmic trading subsection of application (mainly front end and order routing)
- performance improvements/tuning
- ongoing new small change
- infrastructure upgrades
Mandatory requirements
- Strong Java experience
- Strong enterprise Java experience (JMS/JDBC required; Servlet/EJB desirable)
- Strong experience developing in a real-time, high performance, transactional environment
- Multi-threaded programming experience
- Knowledge and experience in Dependency Injection techniques and tools (eg Spring Framework)
- Oracle 10G development experience
- Team player with good interpersonal/communication skills
Desirable / not essential
- Exchange connectivity experience highly desirable
- Knowledge of the FIX protocol (4.x+) highly desirable
- Knowledge of XML based GUI frameworks (eg SwiXML)
- Swing GUI/Webstart development
- WebSphere deployment
- Advanced PL/SQL development
- Knowledge of Maven/Ant/JUnit/EasyMock, and the concept of continuous integration
- Oracle performance/tuning
- Shell scripting (bash)
- Experience of working with real-time transactional databases
- Business knowledge of Exchange Traded Derivatives
- Business knowledge of Front/Back office processes (eg the lifecycle of a trade)
- Knowledge of design patterns/UML
It has a daily usage of over 1500 individuals - split between internal traders and external clients. It is Java based though there are small components written in C++. The most important thing is throughput and latency. Application must handle 100k price updates per second from a variety of exchanges around the globe, and must be able to transact orders in a decreasingly short time. As a result, analysts, developers, and support personnel must all be focused on achieving the leanest, fastest system they can deliver, whilst at the same time delivering required benefit to the business.