Software Engineer

The Department:Join the team that is responsible for designing, implementing & continuously evolving trade capture & middle office systems in our new fully systematic trading booking platform. The engineering team will work closely with trading tech, portfolio finance & middle office operations teams in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate must possess strong knowledge & experience of designing & implementing distributed and scalable multi-asset class (equities, swaps, futures & fx) trade booking, reconciliation and reporting systems using microservices architecture.The engineering team is part of systematic technology group responsible to design, implement and evolve systems required to enable the real time trade booking, t0/t1 reconciliations & reporting.MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE: Design, develop and evolve highly scalable & reliable trade processing, reconciliation & reporting platform. WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND /TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:EssentialDesirable5-10 years of Java programming experienceExperience working with AWS cloud (EKS, S3)Experience working with Kafka messagingExperience working with relational databases such as SQL server & PostgresExperience working with Spring BootExperience with CI/CD methodologies (GitHub) and container-based packaging & deploymentBS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplineSelf-motivated, proactiveAbility to perform well under pressureEnthusiastic, flexible and adaptable Ability to work effectively independently as well as part of a teamGood interpersonal skillsStrong communication, problem solving & analytical skillsExtensive experience designing and building trade processing & reporting systemsExperience with Agile & TDD software development methodologies and a strong philosophy around automated test coverageKnowledge of financial products equity, swaps, futures & fxExperience working with NoSQL database Mongo DBExperience working with Apache FlinkSummaryLocation: London (82)Type: Full time