Senior Java Software Engineer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Morgan McKinley

Description

Morgan McKinley is currently working with a leading bank, who is seeking a Senior Java Developer.

As the Senior Java Developer, you will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence.

The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing framework
Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI...)
Assisting in third line support during core trading hours
7 years of relevant experience using Java to develop service oriented, multi-tiered, and micro-service applications
~ Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
~ Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
~ Technical skills include Java, Spring, TDD, DBs, and UNIX/LINUX
~ Understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area is a plus