Job Description
Software Engineer
City of London
Hybrid (3/2 split)
Contract
£900 - £1000 per day (Via Umbrella)
cer Financial are working alongside an international bank, who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Software Engineer to work with them on a contract.
The responsibilities of the Software Engineer will include:
· Hands-on Full Stack development using React as front end and Java 21 as the primary language for back end
· Work with other teams including Front office risk teams, trading desk, Quants, and DevOps to build state of the art front to back pricing and risk solutions,
· Focus on non-functional requirements from the start increasing maintainability and reliability.
· Continuous improvement of the development and release environment, tooling, and processes.
· Work closely with the operation team and users and provide level 3 support as required.
The successful Software Engineer will have:
· Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including Concurrency; Algorithms and data structures
· Scrum/agile methodology (Product owner and/or Scrum master), or ability to deliver software on short cycles
· Evidence of delivering application from inception, to design, and to production
· String core Java development skills including streams, lambdas, and advanced concurrency APIs
· Extensive experience and understanding of distributed systems, developing, profiling, and maintaining multi-threaded, asynchronous applications
· JVM monitoring, profiling, performance tuning, and debugging. Experience with analysis tools such as JConsole, JVisualVM, Elastic Search/Logstash, Prometheus; Open tracing
· Extensive experience of test driven development
· Knowledge of CI/CD on large complex systems
· Experience from working in the Risk or pricing domain in investment banking, either in Front-office, or Market/Credit risk with a good understanding of risk sensitivities and f2b processes.
· Hands-on experience with dynamic scalability; cloud deployment (EKS/Nomad), container/docker deployment, GRPC services, Cloud based services (Prometheus, Elastic Search, databases, Redis, …),
· Experience with Kafka or event processing thru message bus.