Java Developer (Swing)

Project Description:

Project for one of the global investment management firm founded in 1989 that manages more than $57 billion in assets as of February 1, 2023. Firm has more than 4000 employees with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Teams work collaboratively to drive the production of trading algorithm and financial strategies - the foundation of a sustainable, global trading platform. The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm's core infrastructure platform. The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies. In particular: Building the components of a business-critical order management system using the most promising technologies and approaches for designing low-latency systems. High requirements are implied for the system's performance, fault tolerance and reliability. What we offer: ∙ Flexible schedule, remote working is possible ∙ Possible business trips to NYC and other client's locations ∙ Exciting challenges and unique experience in the one of the largest hedge funds ∙ English courses ∙ Various professional development programs ∙ The friendly team of professionals;

Responsibilities:

∙ Participate in the design, implementation, testing and deployment of large-scale systems and services∙ Understand system dependencies and limitations∙ Understand the business need∙ Understand the large scale thinking and approach∙ Understand low level design∙ Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver software releases

Mandatory Skills Description:

∙ Strong Core Java & collections & multi threading (5+ years of development experience)∙ Experience with Java Swing∙ Strong experience of server side development, building high availability, low latency, scalable frameworks, preferably with Open Source∙ Proven hands-on experience with Java SE 8+∙ Experience with Spring Framework and Spring Ecosystem∙ Deep OOP expertise∙ Deep parallel and concurrent programming expertise∙ Ability to communicate ideas in English∙ Team player - ability to get along with existing team members and learn from them (this is absolutely essential for success)∙ Ability to work with minimal direction in a self-sufficient manner, often adapting to ever-changing priorities∙ Focus on accuracy and attention to detail∙ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experiences

Nice-to-Have Skills:

∙ Experience with Solace∙ Experience with Gradle∙ Experience with TDD and Spock framework∙ Experience with DEV and CI/CD tools: Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, ELK∙ Experience with Linux and Bash∙ Experience with MongoDB∙ Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability∙ Solid knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices∙ Understanding of Clean code principles

Languages:English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Key Skills

• Project Management