Lead Java Software Developer
Summary
Lead a team building a centralized Java-based platform for sales and trading in investment banking, integrating services via REST, gRPC, MQ, and Kafka.
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
Must have
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
Knowledge of fixed income and trading domains of investment banking business
Memory management
Multithreaded and high performance development
Concurrent programming and zero lock execution