Senior Java Developer
Posted 7 days ago by Stanford Black Limited
£130,000 Per year
Outside
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: This role is for a Senior Java Developer on a 12-month fixed-term contract with a top-ranked hedge fund in London. The position involves working on electronic trade flow systems and supporting various asset classes while utilizing cutting-edge technologies. Key responsibilities include migrating trades, building reporting systems, and performance tuning of microservices. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Kafka and strong Java skills, particularly with version 17.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support manual booking of all asset classes and lifecycle events.
- Migrate live trades and positions from legacy systems to new systems.
- Build an on-demand liquidation position reporting system.
- Performance tuning of Kafka and various microservices to support trading volumes and market shocks.
- Determine team priorities based on the overall project delivery plan.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience using Kafka.
- Very strong Java skills, currently using version 17.
- Ideally experience with Spring Boot 3.
- Demonstrable experience with microservices and container orchestration platforms.
Salary (Rate): £130,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Java Developer (12-month FTC) Base: £130,000 ( plus discretionary bonus ) This is an exciting opportunity to work with one of top top-ranked hedge funds currently in London, working with cutting-edge technologies. They are currently looking for a Senior Java Developer to join their electronic trade flow team, working on their world-renowned trading systems across the whole fund, supporting a wide range of Asset Classes.
Overview of the role:
- Supporting manual booking of all asset classes as well as the lifecycle events which affect them
- Migrating all live trades and positions from the legacy system to the new one
- Building an on-demand liquidation position reporting system
- Performance tuning of Kafka and the various microservices to ensure we can support all projected trading volumes as well as market shocks
- The team decides its own priorities based on the overall project delivery plan.
Requirments
- Extensive experience using Kafka: Demonstrable experience working on a system at scale
- Java: Very strong Java skills, currently using version 17
- Spring: Ideally Spring Boot 3
- Microservices/ Container: Demonstrable experience on either on-prem or cloud-based orchestration platforms
***Please note that the manager won't look at anyone who has a longer than a 1-month notice period***