Java Backend Developer

Company Description

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Java Backend Developer to join the Research & Development Team. 

Our current project involves developing one of the leading trading platforms in the USA, serving a user base of over 200,000 online users daily across desktops, mobile devices, and the web.

The responsibilities of the platform's backend services include handling all business processes related to trading, such as order issuance, validation, routing, execution, option price calculation, and reconciliation. We prioritize high performance, low latency, and fault tolerance in our day-to-day tasks. We ensure code quality by performing careful code reviews and various types of testing.

Our teams operate in a Scrum/Kanban environment supported by the Atlassian suite, Slack, TeamCity, Sonar, Docker, and other tools.

The teams are multicultural and distributed, typically consisting 3-7 backend engineers, along with QAs, FEs, BAs, and others.
Major parts of our stack:

• Java 11+, Collections, Streams, Threads, Concurrency, Azul JVM
• Spring, JUnit5, AssertJ, Mockito
• Docker, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Splunk

Qualifications

We expect the Java Backend Developer to have:

• Passion for coding in Java
• Have exposure to the Java (J2SE) platform, understanding what's happening under the hood: threads, collections, streams, memory, garbage collector
• Foundation in computer science data structures, algorithms, and their complexities
• Desire to optimize, document, and maintain code and also carefully cover it with tests
• Willingness and energy to take your ideas all the way from proof of concept to production-proof code
• General responsibility and result-oriented mindset
• Desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues, and ability to provide/accept constructive feedback
• B1+ English to be able to communicate with multicultural teams and a US customer

Nice-to-have: 

• Trading and capital markets background
• Hands-on experience in concurrent programming and understanding of thread synchronization approaches
• Exposure to distributed systems, following strong performance and reliability requirements
• Foundation in asynchronous communications
• Solid Unix/Linux knowledge

Additional Information

Devexperts employees create the art of FinTech in comfortable working spaces located in modern business centers around the world. Join our team in Porto and enjoy:

Work Regime Flexibility benefits: 

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode
• Flexible working hours
• Work From Anywhere Program

Health and recreation benefits: 

• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year)
• Medical insurance for the employees and children
• Reimbursement of fitness
• Meal allowance
• Flexpay system

Facility benefits: 

• Modern office with new equipment
• PlayStation, table football, and musical instruments in the office
• Parking spaces
• Free drinks and snacks

Community benefits: 

• Teambuilding activities
• Corporate parties
• Football Club
• Music club
• Speakers' club
• Free admission to corporate external events
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs
• Personal branding development support

Professional training benefits: 

• English language courses
• Local language courses for foreign employees
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms
• Certification opportunities
• Mentorship Program

Social benefits: 

• Parental bonus
• Pension plan
• Referral bonus
• Blood donation paid leave