As part of the Exchange project, you will be working on all aspects of the Exchange, and Core Exchange systems ranging from Matching Engines, Market Data distribution, System management, FIX connectivity.

• To develop software as part of an agile team with short iterations and frequent releases.
• To work within the development/project life-cycle, from analysis to implementation, test and release.
• To contribute to planning and the subsequent development of applications in line with IT policies and procedures.
• To remain up-to-date in terms of current and future upgrades as they relate to your own and your team’s area of work.
• To participate in relevant IT and non-IT projects as directed by your line-manager.

Essential:

• Quick-learner, self-learner
• Core Java 8 - Expert
• Concurrent programming in Java - Expert
• Functional Programming in Java – Good
• Spring, Spring Boot – Expert
• Demonstrable experience of Git usage
• Demonstrable experience of Full BDD / Full TDD
• Demonstrable experience with real time programming / real time data distribution
• Demonstrable experience developing of high performance / low latency, resilient server applications;

Solid experience in one of these areas:

• Messaging systems, JMS, IBM LLM, RCMS, Reuters RFA
• FIX protocol / FIX connectivity
• Oracle and PL/SQL, Flyway, Liquibase, NoSQL DB

Desirable:

• Event Sourcing / CQRS
• Microservices development experiences
• TREP
• Lightstreamer
• MongoDB / InfluxDB
• QuickfixJ
• Domain Driven Development experience
• Continuous Delivery experience
• Unix shell scripting experience
• System administration skills
• Experience of financial markets and exchanges

Interpersonal skills: 

• Articulate communication skills
• Genuine enthusiasm in profession
• High personal and professional standards
• Delivery conscious
• Flexible to changing priorities
• Willing and able to help colleagues
• Attention to details
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously or under supervision

Desirable:

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Able to present a balanced view of different technologies and business requirements to generate the best value for the company