ENVIRONMENT:
JOIN a team passionate about crafting complex technical solutions and knowledge sharing and immerse yourself in a high-standard Engineering culture as your coding expertise is sought to fill the role of a Principal Java Engineer for a dynamic UK-based FinTech company. Your core role will be working on an exciting new product where you will be part of a team building a full trade lifecycle platform. The successful incumbent will possess exceptional Core Java skills, have Banking/Finance industry experience, solid knowledge of Concurrency and Multithreaded Programming and experience developing Low Latency pricing and trading systems in a Linux environment. You will also require eFX development experience in a low latency, zero GC environment, networking (TCP/UDP/FIX/DNS/WebSocket, multicast) and mindset for solid security & proficiency with tech tools including Java, Python, JavaScript, Netty, Chronicle, Aeron, Kafka, full AWS Suite, Ansible, HashiCorp tools, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Rocky, some React/Redux UIs.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Excellent Core Java skills.
- Experienced within the Banking/Finance industry.
- Good knowledge of Concurrency and Multithreaded Programming.
- Experience of developing Low Latency pricing and trading systems in a Linux environment.
- Application performance profiling and optimisation.
- eFX development experience in a low latency, zero GC environment.
- Development experience in STP / OMS / EMS / Market Connectivity / Messaging / eFX Risk / Pricing.
- Knowledge of institutional encodings (FIX, SBE).
- Fault tolerant, high availability, distributed computing.
- Knowledge of low latency messaging (e.g., Chronicle, Aeron, 29West).
- Docker / Kubernetes / Public Cloud including AWS.
- Experience in infrastructure management with strong focus on AWS, networking (TCP/UDP/FIX/DNS/WebSocket, multicast) and mindset for solid security.
- Long-term Linux user with intimate knowledge of running servers and performance tuning.
- Experience with building event-driven systems using Netty, Chronicle, Aeron and SBE.
- Technology stack includes Java, Python, JavaScript, Netty, Chronicle, Aeron, Kafka, full AWS Suite, Ansible, HashiCorp tools, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Rocky Linux, some React/Redux UIs.
- Experience of automated End-to-end Testing.
- Experience of Injection/Inversion of control and Event driven Architecture patterns.
- Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban) & Continuous Delivery.
ATTRIBUTES:
- A lover of Java and a problem solver.
- A great team player.
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Desired Skills:
- Principal
- Java
- Engineer