Typical Day in Role:
• Development and support of a front-office trading system used for trade booking, trade execution and pricing of derivatives trades.
• Conduct proof of concept on new technologies or solutions around Microservices.
• Participate in design discussions on scalability, performance, security, Microservices best practices.
• Take ownership and responsibility of development of products onboarding to the trading platform and be efficient with sizing and estimates for development.
• Proactively partners with business line representatives to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy.
• Participates as technical or business consultant in design, development, coding, testing, and debugging new packaged solutions or significant enhancements to existing applications.
• Leverage industry best practices & writing clean minimalistic code.
• Generate technical specifications of design and updating confluence.
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment to work with Quants and Traders.
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1. 10+ years of service side development experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Boot, spring batch with an emphasis on REST services.
2. 3+ years’ Angular (latest versions preferred) experience.
3. 3+ years of experience with relational databases & Stored procedures.
4. Excellent Computer Science Fundamentals; Object Oriented Design; Java Design Patterns;
5. 1-2 years of experience of Shell scripting – ksh
6. Has Worked in an Agile Environment.
Nice to have Skills:
1. Python application (Django, Flask) development experience is an asset
2. Experience Microservices Architecture, Event Driven Architecture
3. Knowledge of capital markets and financial instruments
4. CI/CD Automation & Cloud deployment experience.
Soft Skills Required:
• Great communication skills – both oral and written
• Winning attitude
• Adaptable to a very dynamic environment
• Creative, self-starting, results-oriented, highly motivated
• High attention to detail
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Able to multi-task and work in a fast paced and agile environment
Education: Post – secondary