Senior WEB/GUI Developer - Finance - 6 Month Contract - Sydney

This is an exciting senior web developer role joining a high calibre team of financial markets experts. The role is responsible for the complete look and feel of the company's Front End technology. As an experienced and confident user interface expert you will be responsible for the design and architecture of the new Front End, in collaboration with the Server Side development team.

The successful applicant will be improving the consistency between a number of already existing products and the project will also be used as a foundation for new product development.

Ideally candidates will have a solid track record of similar Front End projects in investment banks or trading houses so that there is a clear understanding of users expectations of Real Time, pushed content. Alternatively experience on systems like online betting exchanges or similar that have fast Real Time user interface requirements is possible.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead the design and development of a large re-architecture of the user interface technology
- Redesign user experience
- Introduce a flexible, reusable and extensible set of images, style sheets and client-side scripts

REQUIRED SKILLS

- Extensive Financial Markets Knowledge
- Extensive Front Office Trading Systems Knowledge
- Expert user interface design experience.
- 5 years minimum experience with:

o HTML/XHTML and CSS

o HTML 5.0

o Photoshop and image editing.

o JavaScript and related engines such as Ajax/Comet

o JSON.or other related messaging protocols.

o Programming experience, including C# and .NET

- Ability to organise and manage multiple priorities
- Experience developing and implementing open source software projects

DESIRABLE

- Experience of

o WebSockets

o Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)

o Caplin Systems technology

o Microsoft SQL Server

o Java

- High performance Real Time GUI development experience.
- Strong source control management ideally in SVN including extensive use of code branching and merging.

KEYWORDS: JAVA, USER INTERFACE, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, JSON, CHROMIUM, WEBSOCKETS, TRADING, Real Time, Fixed Income, EQUITIES, DERIVATIVES

If this position interests you, please submit a word copy of your resume via the 'Apply Now' button or email. Or for further information please contact JON_GRANTquoting reference QUICKWEBJG.

Unfortunately this opportunity does not offer visa sponsorship so please only apply if you already have full working rights for Australia.

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