Play a vital role in shaping the future of an iconic company and make a direct impact in a dynamic environment designed for top achievers.
Job Summary
As a Lead Software Engineer within the Global Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in promoting the delivery of a best-in-class platform. This platform provides intra-day pricing, workflow, hedge execution, and client connectivity for a wide range of complex financial products. You will be involved in the full delivery lifecycle, from gathering requirements to designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting the platform. We value your passion for working in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with a global team across multiple disciplines, and embracing an agile development process. We look forward to your excitement about working with new technologies and your commitment to continually learning and evolving your skillset.
Job Responsibilities
Work directly with sales, trading, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.End-to-end ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.Provide 3rd Level production support – analyze issues observed in production, manage communications with stakeholders and end users, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are coordinated with other systems.Ensure technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics or other technical major.Over 8 years’ experience in application development with recent hands-on responsibilities.Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17.Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, GC tuning, etc.Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities.Exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS. Experience with Databases – relational as well as No-SQLExperience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks. Experience supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues.Experience working in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity.