Core Java Software Engineer III

Job Description:
Overview the Role
We are seeking a strong developer to join a new team making significant enhancements to the strategic equities electronic trading OMS to onboard critical retail equities flow.
This is a core Java role with an emphasis on writing concurrent, distributed, low-latency code to efficiently handle high volumes of trading flow.
The candidate will be expected to assist with all facets of application development including tooling, release management, automated testing and eventually support escalations (once live). The development work is based around an agile process driven off a prioritized backlog of work.
Candidates are expected to propose creative solutions, participate in healthy debate regarding the design of the system and provide fresh perspectives for a collaborative team culture.
Required Skills

• Familiarity with source control tools, GIT
• Strong Java development skills, with good understanding of core java.
• Proficiency of core comp sci concepts and ability to reason through problems and algorithms
• Strong object modelling skills, and discipline to appropriately model domain issues
• Understanding of unit and integration testing
• Familiarity with working in Linux environments
• Understanding / appreciation of agile methodologies

Desired Skills

• Experience in front office trading units, and understanding of related products
• Experience in equities products, electronic trading
• Experience in managing latency and memory within JVM
• Building distributed systems
• FIX protocol experience

LOB General:
Responsible for designing and developing complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Ensures that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. Ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry, and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns. At this level, specializations start to form in either Architecture, Test Engineering or DevOp. Contributes to story refinement/defining requirements. Participates and guides team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle. Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas. Codes solutions and unit tests to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements. Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements. Assists team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work. Designs/develops/modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained. Designs/develops/maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance). Sets up and develops a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline. Automates manual release activities. Mentors other Software Engineers and coaches team on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack. Individual contributor.
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Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Pay and benefits information
New York City pay range:
$90,500 - $175,000 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible . We provide industry-leading benefits, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.