Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)

Rate: £645 per day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 6 months

Morgan McKinley is currently working with a leading bank, who is seeking a Senior Java Developer. As the Senior Java Developer, you will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large-scale, modern technology platform with a global presence. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
• Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing best practices
• Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing framework
• Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• 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
• Contribute actively to system design decisions
• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
• 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...)
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

Qualifications:

Knowledge/Experience:

• 7 years of relevant experience using Java to develop service-oriented, multi-tiered, and micro-service applications
• Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
• Experience working with multi-threaded applications
• Technical skills include Java, Spring, TDD, DBs, and UNIX/LINUX
• Understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area is a plus

If this role is of interest, please apply!

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