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So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
A strong, senior SCALA developer to work project, the strategic real time risk system for the Equities business.
Develop tools and applications that directly contribute to the efficiency, product innovation, risk management and revenue generation of the Equity Derivatives business
Work in an agile development team producing tested, robust software.
Liaise with business partners to identify new requirements and ensure the system meets expectations.
Peer-programing development style, agile methodology including sprints, planning etc.
An understanding of the functioning of the main client systems and the analytics library will be required.
In the future, possible involvement in 2nd line support
Investigation and resolution of production issues will be expected.
Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
This role is for a developer interested in designing and delivering working solutions in a structured, agile manner. We value smart people, with a problem solving ability and a “can do” attitude above specific language experience.
Required
Technical
- 5+ years commercial software development
- SCALA, functional programing, Java VM development, IntelliJ IDEA
- Knowledge of ScalaTest or Specs2
- Knowledge of reactive programming principles
- Teamcity, Git, Maven, SBT, Hazelcast, Spray, ActiveMQ
- Preferred additional skills: Java Server Pages (JSP), JavaScript, Java Servlets, general HTML and CSS
Soft
Candidate should:
- Be prepared to work in a peer-programing style
- Be eager to create clean, documented code and not avoid to clean up code that he/she encounters in the project.
- Understand and appreciate the value of writing meaningful tests. Reading through a test should explain the intent of the code - this is what is present in the code base (though there is always room to improve) and what we would want maintained going forward with all new features. Appreciates the benefits of test-driven development.
- Have good communication skills in English, verbal and written.
- Be keen on communicating with people from various locations and cultures
- Have skills and persistence in dealing with busy people and complex and distributed software environments.
- Have worked in agile environment before - short delivery cycles, always keeping the code base working, pairing and interacting with other developers when it's beneficial, favouring automation over doing things manually to reduce errors and increase delivery speed.
- Enjoy staying up to date with technology developments - by reading blogs, listening to podcasts, attending user groups or conferences, being involved in open source projects, answering questions on StackOverflow. We don't expect people to do all of the above, but are looking for someone who is aware of broader changes and developments in the programming community.
Other
- Accustomed with continuous refactoring
- Proven ability to work well in a front-office or similar highly pressurised and delivery-oriented environment
- Strong focus on delivery
- Strong team-building and interpersonal skills
- Experience of delivering complex systems in a changing fast paced environment
- Understand concepts of and will have worked under source code configuration management policies and tools
Good degree in IT (but will consider a strong Mathematics, Engineering, Arts or other Science degree, or equivalent Commercial experience)
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- Financial knowledge of derivative products
- Experience working in a big organization
- Knowledge of risk management systems
- C# and WPF
Project is the strategic real time risk system replacing current systems to improving performance, flexibility and user experience. It is written in SCALA and Java and is part of project suite of applications. It uses number of services most notably highly scalable valuation cluster consisting of 1000+ of valuation nodes.