Senior Java Developer, FX, Low Latency, Pricing, Trading

Job Type: Contract
Posted: almost 7 years ago
Contact: Vanessa Knispel
Discipline:
Reference: 175291_1499994152

About the company
A leading provider of integrated financial services; Australia's leading brand across the financial services industry serving customers in Australia and around the world.

About the Role
As Senior Java Engineer, this role will focus on the delivery of a low-latency, high-performance multi-asset dealing platform. You will be a low-latency Java engineer with a proven track-record in delivery of similar systems. You will be involved in designing and delivering the new system including design architectures, optimisations and some production operation in conjunction with trading/sales desks and application support teams.

Required experience

  • Experience in Investment Banking teams,
  • Have experience on Pricing, Execution and or Post Trade platforms
  • Ability to work efficiently and precisely
  • Be an excellent communicator with a focus on team working
  • Skilled in analysis and problem solving and have a strong mixture of technology and business skills.
  • Strong analytical skills in pricing and trading, ideally in FX, to support effective requirements capture from business teams into deliverables.

Technical Skills:

  • Built highly multi-threaded systems in a low latency environment using core java (Collections, multithreading, OOP, GC)
  • Object orientated design and architecture skills (EIPs, Application Architecture, Design Patterns, Redundant and fault-tolerant systems design)
  • Worked in a performance sensitive SoA/Micro-services environment
  • Unix systems - Redhat, CentOS, etc
  • Relational Databases - Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Flyway, Liquibase
  • Messaging architectures and systems (transaction processing)
  • In-memory data grid - Oracle Coherence or Gigaspaces, Hazlecast, Gridgain, etc
  • Full-lifecycle development including build and deployment tools - Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, OpsCode Chef, Ansible, Docker, Zookeeper
  • Focus on TDD and or BDD

Benefits & culture

  • A strong commitment to diversity and inclusion
  • Be financially rewarded with first rate market rates, on the job training and career advancement
  • An advocate of work life balance to maintain meaningful daily achievement in work, life, family and self

In the first instance please APPLY with your resume to Vanessa Knispe