Software Engineer

Software Engineer

City of London

Hybrid (3/2 split)

Contract

£900 - £1000 per day (Via Umbrella)

cer Financial are working alongside an international bank, who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Software Engineer to work with them on a contract.

The responsibilities of the Software Engineer will include:

• Hands-on Full Stack development using React as front end and Java 21 as the primary language for back end
• Work with other teams including Front office risk teams, trading desk, Quants, and DevOps to build state of the art front to back pricing and risk solutions,
• Focus on non-functional requirements from the start increasing maintainability and reliability.
• Continuous improvement of the development and release environment, tooling, and processes.
• Work closely with the operation team and users and provide level 3 support as required.

The successful Software Engineer will have:

• Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including Concurrency; Algorithms and data structures
• Scrum/agile methodology (Product owner and/or Scrum master), or ability to deliver software on short cycles
• Evidence of delivering application from inception, to design, and to production
• String core Java development skills including streams, lambdas, and advanced concurrency APIs
• Extensive experience and understanding of distributed systems, developing, profiling, and maintaining multi-threaded, asynchronous applications
• JVM monitoring, profiling, performance tuning, and debugging. Experience with analysis tools such as JConsole, JVisualVM, Elastic Search/Logstash, Prometheus; Open tracing
• Extensive experience of test driven development
• Knowledge of CI/CD on large complex systems
• Experience from working in the Risk or pricing domain in investment banking, either in Front-office, or Market/Credit risk with a good understanding of risk sensitivities and f2b processes.
• Hands-on experience with dynamic scalability; cloud deployment (EKS/Nomad), container/docker deployment, GRPC services, Cloud based services (Prometheus, Elastic Search, databases, Redis, ...),
• Experience with Kafka or event processing thru message bus.