Senior Java Developer, Fixed Income Firm wide Risk Project

This is one of the most successful trading divisions within this US Investment Bank and a key area of growth for the bank in the short term. In line with a scaling up of the Credit Derivatives business, this firm are looking to push forward with a complete revamp of their Fixed Income Credit Derivative Risk platform.

To join this highly technical team you will need to display strong technical competency in most of the following:- Strong core Java:
-Data structures, design patterns and collections
-Multi-threaded programming
-Java standard APIs
-Distributed systems

Scala:
-Core Scala APIs including the collections
-Usage of implicit methods, parameters and classes
-Functional programming idioms
-Understanding of the performance characteristics of common Scala idioms

Risk systems experience
-Optimization of calculations
-Implementing new Risk calculations based on requirements from the business

Skills Desired:

-Good communication skills, experience of Front Office environments
-Risk Aggregation
-Scala Macros and/or Compiler plugins
-Eclipse IDE ( we use 3.8 )
-Gradle
-Junit
-Fixed Income business/analytical knowledge
-OSGi bundle definition
-Java performance and tuning
-Grid computing frameworks
-Distributed caching
-Etrading process/connectivity knowledge
-Unix/Linux Shell

This is a project based technology team requiring a hands on, can do attitude to deliver key components of this high profile project within the bank.