Back End Developer

Skills: A creative approach towards solving technical problems fast, as part of an L3 Rota: intra-day and on-call; Desire and ability to learn, debug and investigate across complex system landscape; Strong analytical skills; Demonstrable SW Development experience; In-depth understanding of SDLC; Ability to work with modern frameworks and tools, ability to analyse and learn; Understanding of asynchronous communication patterns and event-driven architecture; Java: Demonstrable knowledge of Java SE fundamentals, including the Collections Framework, Generics, and Exception Handling; Hands-on experience with modern Java features (Java 17 or higher), including Streams API, Lambda expressions, and Records; Good understanding of multithreading, concurrency patterns, and memory management (JVM internals); Proven ability to write testable code using JUnit and Mockito for comprehensive unit and integration testing Ability to deliver clean, maintainable, and efficient Java code that adheres to industry best practices Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through systematic debugging and JVM tuning Ability to conduct thorough code reviews Knowledge of TeamCity/Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, GIT, GCP, Kubernetes; In-depth understanding of software quality and maintainability, including participation in QA automation process; SQL, Bash, Linux basic knowledge Excellent communication skills in English. Nice to have: Experience in Capital Markets, preferably Trading systems; Design Patterns; Message brokers: JMS/Kafka/RabbitMq/IBMMQ/Solace; Experience with supporting live critical systems; FIX Protocol. Throughout your journey within our team, we expect you to develop, demonstrate and apply both soft and technical skills: Thinking: Seek out relevant information from a number of different sources and validate the information credibility as a basis for solutions. Use existing concepts and problem solving processes and generates workable alternatives and does so at different times (serially rather than in parallel) from a personal perspective. Engaging: Actively listen and use open questions to understand the views of others. Seek to achieve common consensus on topics and issues. Seek out opportunities to collaborate, contribute to communities, and actively develop self as well as help others to develop skills, capabilities, and best practice. Influencing: Influence through strong, fact and benefit-based proposals. Conduct clear communication that is understood by many audiences. Make decisions quickly, based on information to hand, and therefore demonstrate confidence in your views and position. Achieving: Be responsive to issues and take necessary action and follow planned activities effectively. Consider how technology can create business value and consider cost in delivering solutions. Actively experiment to learn. Designing: Design solutions with limited supervision using common design patterns and a range of design tools & techniques. Conduct reviews with peers to ensure designs are fit for purpose, flexible, extensible, re-usable and compliant with all relevant DB design standards. Delivering: Deliver high quality complex solutions end to end autonomously across a range of technologies. Influence standards, working practices, tools and solutions across the team and be emerging as an expert in one or more technical domains. Drive automation of the delivery process. Positively impact team effectiveness. Operating: Have a good working knowledge of operate solutions and services and identify areas to minimize toil. Undertake investigations and increasingly lead remediation; analyze services and components. Controlling: Recognize the key elements of security, risk and control, and investigate and report on issues and potential risk events within the engineering designs and solutions in your area. Continue to learn and consequently strengthen your designs & solutions.