Java Developer - Morgan McKinley : Job Details

Java Developer

Location: Manchester, UK

Duration: 10 months

Responsibilities:

- Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design

- Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components

- Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround

- Contribute actively to system design decisions

- Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions

- Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups

- Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)

- Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

Knowledge/Experience:

- 7 years of relevant experience using Java to develop service oriented, multi-tiered, and micro-service applications

- Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns,

- Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills

- Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming

- Experience working with multi-threaded applications

- Technical skills include Java, Spring, TDD, DBs, and UNIX/LINUX

- Understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area is a plus

Competencies:

- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to business users

- Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals

- Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment

- Ability to work on a fast-pace environment; Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

Education:

- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

- This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

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