About the Team
FM Digital Channels is a global team driven to provide world class technology in support of the bank's Financial Markets business. Solar is the bank's strategic, in-house built pricing, execution, and trade processing platform. 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.
Responsibilities
•Drive scope and requirements definition
•Design solutions and evaluate technology
•Break down large projects into incremental deliveries
•Build opinionated core libraries and scalable core platform services
•Build robust services for business tools such as sales-trader workflow, blotters, trader tools, analytics, and controls
•Build automated tests to enable continuous delivery
•See the results of your work on trading desks across the world and receive direct feedback from your business users
•Support services you build and their users
•Quickly learn existing design and coding patterns, consistently apply and collaboratively evolve them while delivering increasingly complex and exciting projects for customers
Requirements
•Versatile Java developer with good software design principles
•7+ years of relevant experience
•Expert in Core Java, Spring Framework, RX Java, REST, Reactive Web Services
•Experienced in micro-services and container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Docker
•Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Azure DevOps
•Experience with SQL databases and other distributed data stores, e.g. Oracle and Hazelcast
•Experience with messaging technologies, e.g. Kafka and Solace
•Good knowledge of design patterns and best practices
•Able to design the solution to complex and/or ambiguous business problems that may require changes in existing architecture or frameworks
•Writing efficient, clear, well-tested code, and able to articulate what was built and why
•Built complex, real-time (event-driven), distributed systems
•Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems
•Good team player, but able to deliver autonomously when required
•Effective communicator, fluent in English (speaking and writing)
•Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts
•Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support of complex systems
•Proactive self-starter, keen problem solver, with strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity
•Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent (STEM is a preference)
Nice to have: Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking
Benefits
•In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing
•Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
•Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
•Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
•A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
•Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates unique diversity across teams, business functions and geographies
