6 month rolling contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking
Key Responsibilities
· Participate in an agile based software development life-cycle including technical analysis, documentation, development, testing and code reviews.
· Collaborate with the production support team for release and maintenance of the components.
· Work closely with the other developers in determining and following best development and architecture practice.
· Propose and provide feedback from experience/knowledge on architecture, design, technology choices and technology direction of the platform.
· Train and mentor less experienced participants through instruction, pair programming and code review.
· Fully participate in requirement and design meetings for new functionality.
· Develop reference implementations and documentation for platform features
· Moderate and review development contributions from the development community
Skills and Experience
· Software development experience in an enterprise environment
· Good development skills and experience with ReactJs
· Good development skills and experience with Javascript
· Good development skills and experience with Typescipt, CSS.
· Good development skills and experience with the common javascript libraries and other web technologies
· Experience with reactive extensions.
· Experience with real time trading systems.
· Knowledge of programming best practices, design patterns etc.
· Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery
· Good understanding of test driven development and continuous integration practices
· Good understanding of relational databases with appropriate SQL knowledge
· Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, inside and outside the team.
· Desire to learn quickly and ability to adapt to a fast changing environment.
· Strong problem solving skills.
· Comfortable dealing with numbers.
· Solid academic background in engineering, sciences or economics.
Desirable Requirements
· Good development experience with C# and the Microsoft.NET stack.
· Front office development experience in any of: Interest Rates Products, Repos, FX.
· Financial product knowledge in Interest Rates products, FX, FX Options
· Experience developing large real-time financial trading applications.
· Experience with real time messaging protocols.
· Agile practitioner using Scrum.
· An ability to design performant software and an understanding of application performance profiling