Lead Java Developer

Job Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. As a member of the Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to participate in modernizing and enhancing some of our most prominent financial data platforms. You will have the opportunity to participate in designing and developing both enhancements to existing product features and entirely new ones. The ideal candidate will have experience with using LLMs to extract structured content from unstructured documents, or at a minimum the ability and desire to enter this domain.

Responsibilities

• An Agile backend developer, focusing on sustainable development by exercising good estimation, effective coding strategies for managing code, employing automated testing to protect quality.
• Using AI coding assistants and especially agentic workflows to accelerate development cycles, while marinating full ownership of generated code and documentation.
• Analyse needs and requirements of existing and proposed systems.
• Develop technical specifications.
• Design, develop, and test software applications with high quality and on schedule.
• Turn ideas and concepts into carefully designed and well-authored code.
• Articulate the interdependencies and the impact of the design choices.
• Implement modules ensuring best coding practice.
• Resolve technical issues of the product implementation.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related fields or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience using object-oriented design for high-volume transactional and customer-facing web applications.
• Strong experience in developing and deploying microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with Oracle databases.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Strong understanding of multithreading concepts, thread safety, and concurrent programming techniques.
• Ability to communicate fluently and professionally in complex technical and business contexts.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of fixed income markets and financial instruments.
• Proven experience utilizing Agentic AI to accelerate complex/large development efforts.
• Experience developing in Python
• Familiarity with Linux.