Blade Senior Backend Developer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers
eFinancialCareers
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Ready to take the next step in your career with us?
To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit.

It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation.

This in turn helps us to provide better supportto our broad client base.


The Role Responsibilities:


  • The Derivatives Transaction Pricing team is responsible for crossproduct transactional pricing of derivatives within Standard Chartered. The development team is driven to provide world class technology to support the bank's Financial Markets business.

We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment.

This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smarttechnologists globally in the financial markets domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful.

  • As an experienced developer, you will be expected to hit the ground running delivering quality solutions to businesscritical customer requirements. Based in London, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts,project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.
Regulatory & Business Conduct

  • Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
  • Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations,guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
  • Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Attributes

  • An excellent Java developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites.
  • Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why.
  • Selfstarter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
  • Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
  • Experience working in an agile development environment
  • A team player, capable of engaging with other teams
  • Experience in the endtoend design, development, and support of financial markets systems
  • Experience with realtime (eventdriven) architectures
  • Provide second line support
  • Domain knowledge in derivatives etrading is a plus
  • Some UI Development experience is a plus
  • Being a fullstack web developer is a big plus

Technical skills:

  • Strong previous hands on development with investment banking IT experience
  • Core Java (essential), Concurrency, Spring
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps
  • Experience in microservices and container technologies (preferably OpenShift or Docker)
  • RX Java is a plus
  • Kafka Experience is a plus
  • Experience with distributed data stores particularly Cassandra is a plus
  • Functional programming experience a plus
  • Any UI Development experience is a strong plus preferably Core JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, React, npm/yarn and webpack.

Functional skills:

  • Financial Market domain knowledge
  • Investment banking is a strong plus
  • Derivatives business is a plus
  • Preferable Domain Knowledge any of Rates, FXO and etrading

Soft skills:

  • Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
  • Strong ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity
  • Outstanding problemsolving skills
  • Proactive, selfstarter, autonomous
  • Good team spirit
Role Specific Competencies

  • Core Java
  • Microservices, containers and cloud experience
  • Apache Kafka and Cassandra experience
  • Ability to develop latency sensitive systems
  • Agile development
  • Git and Atlassian toolset
  • Financial markets domain knowledge
  • Strong knowledge and previous experience in endtoend design, development and subsequent support of large scale data processing systems
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