Team and Position

We are seeking a talented Application Developer to join a dynamic Capital Market Department!

As an Application Developer, you will be responsible for developing features within a specific Delivery Team. You will work autonomously and follow a continuous improvement approach, ensuring high-quality code that adheres to our design, norms, and standards. You will be accountable for delivering solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, taking into account the principles of Agile development.

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

Main Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements
• Build quality, shippable, and reusable code according to design and coding standards.
• Write simple, purposeful, and lean code that aligns with CMI project guidelines and quality standards.
• Perform peer reviews when needed to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Implement Configuration Management on each of your work items to ensure version control and traceability.
• Perform unit tests to verify the functionality.
• Automate tests according to the test strategy, ensuring test coverage targets are met and adhering to software factory practices.
• Implement and perform technical tests as defined in the test strategy to ensure the software meets all requirements.
• Propose non-functional needs in sprints to ensure the software meets performance, security, and other non-functional requirements.
• Estimate, break down, and update User Stories and Tasks to ensure accurate project planning and tracking.
• Update Sprint Backlog to reflect progress and any changes in scope.

Qualifications and Profile

• Candidate should have minimally 8 years of experience in relevant activities.

Technical

• Good knowledge in UNIX platform
• Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning
• Java/J2EE, Spring,AngularJS, Spring MVC/Struts, Multi-threading, Restful web services, Swagger, JMS/WebSphere MQ, Java script, JQuery, XML, XSLT, Xpath, XSD
• Valuable exposure to tools & technologies like Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, Gitlab, MQ Series, Mongo DB
• Well experienced and having good understanding on SQL language, relational databases – MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Application server – Jboss/WildFly/ Websphere
• Experience in DevOps tooling (GIT, Maven/Graven/Nuget/Ansible, Jenkins… )
• Experience with Docker/Kurbernetes
• Domain-Driven design and Microservices: springboot

Functional

• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)

Nice to Have

• Any Object-oriented language: Java, .Net
• Exposure to Capital Markets applications
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player