Senior Java Developer - Mississauga Ontario Canada

The FI data Technology Team is responsible for the efficient delivery of data analytics solution for front office users (e.g. trading). In order to achieve our mission we maintain a data analytics stack built around big data streaming and distribution technologies as well as microservices. We handle very large data volumes on a daily basis and we work closely with the business to ensure they can leverage these data points efficiently to maintain the firm’s competitive advantage.

We are looking to on-board a  Senior Java Developer to join our team to extend our platform in support of business requirements. The right candidate should have a good understanding of the following technologies: a strong understanding of the Spring stack (notably Spring Web and Spring Security), a good understanding of Java / JVM internals, a good understanding of microservice design and protocols, Kafka, streaming technologies (preferably Flink or Apache Beam) and an understanding of big data platforms (Druid, Pinot).

This challenging role offers an excellent opportunity to work on complex technical problems while also gaining an understanding of the Rates business. This role would suit well a Developer who would like to augment and diversify their skillset with additional business knowledge.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high performance green-field data analytics products for a Tier 1 bank. 

• Collaborate with business partners on the trading floor to create technical solutions with a competitive advantage.

• Part of an innovative team pushing boundaries to create cutting edge data visualization solutions.

• Promote and follow engineering best practices.

• Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround.

• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to enterprise solutions.

• Ability to take initiative to research, learn and recommend emerging technologies.

• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups.

• Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…).

Knowledge/Experience:

Technical skill:

• Minimum 5 years demonstrable and relevant experience.

• Solid understanding of Java / Spring stack development.

• Solid understanding of REST API development.

• Demonstrable experience in writing reusable, testable and efficient code with proper error and exception handling.

• Experience with design and implementation of cloud-ready applications and deployment via Kubernetes / Openshift.

• Experience with big data computation platforms (Flink, Spark, Apache Beam) or big data distribution platforms (Hadoop, Pinot, Druid)

• Hands-on experience in handling various data structures.

• Good understanding of Data modeling, partitioning and sharing of huge data sets.

Software engineering skills:

• Experience working on a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment. Familiarity with TeamCity, Sonarqube and Jenkins

• Experience with the SDLC lifecycle and in working within an Agile environment

• Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit

• Understanding of Agile software development methodology and strong experience with standard CI  tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Sonarqube, git).

Business facing and interpersonal skills:

• Strong communication skills, oral and written.

• Ability to apply sound technical skills and knowledge of the Rates business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs.

• Responsible, agile and collaborative team worker.

• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.

• Self-motivated and organised, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.

• Ability to face off to all business users (traders, financial controllers, risk managers, etc.)

• Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

• Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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