Java developer

Java Developer London – Hybrid Contract until March end 2026 Inside Ir35

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development using Java 21 as the primary language,
• 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.

Qualifications

Essential skills and qualifications

• Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including Concurrency; Algorithms and data structures
• Proactive self-starter who is able to take initiative and roll up sleeves to get things done.
• Can influence cross discipline teams to achieve complex deliveries
• 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

Desired skills

• 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
• Experience with Workflow/Scheduling/State management

If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!

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