Lead Java Software Developer

Hybrid -> 1/2 days from office per week

Project Description

Our client in banking and capital markets industry is building a centralized platform for its sales and trading business vertical.

A critical challenge is the client experience, where clients face off with three separate businesses, rather than a one-stop-shop. This experience is mirrored on the back-end with three separate workflows and infrastructures across products.

We are a team that engage in development of a centralized, in-house driven sales and trading platform, engaging with IT and control functions in support of rollout across all trading business.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based applications and services.
• Task allocation and work prioritization among team
• Application architecture planning and design
• Responsibility for business and technical aspects of application development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development and test environments.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices in software development and testing.
• Document technical designs, test plans, and procedures.
• Proactively ask the right questions to clarify requirements
• Capable of designing solutions before moving into the implementation phase
• Provide technical support to less senior team members

Mandatory Skills Description

• Proven experience of minimum 8 years with Java development and strong core Java development skills
• Prior experience of minimum 5 years as team lead/technical lead
• Experience with clarification of technical requirements
• Experience with assigning tasks within the team
• Proven experience with data bases
• Service integration (REST, grpc, MQ, Kafka)
• Proven knowledge of computer science concepts including concurrency, algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Github Copilot

Nice-to-Have Skills Description

• Knowledge of fixed income and trading domains of investment banking business
• Memory management
• Multithreaded and high performance development
• Concurrent programming and zero lock execution