Associate, Java Quantitative Developer, London recruitment
Top global financial Engineering team is currently looking for a Java developer working on software for financial applications, in particular handling market data capture and distribution, technology infrastructure, web frontend, computational distributed grid and/or pricing engine.
Implementation and maintenance of various aspects of the firms Java-based hosted valuations platform, working within a global team of 15 developers. On the job training can be provided for financial aspects of the job.
Qualifications:
- The right candidate will have a very strong academic degree or equivalent background in a numerate discipline.
- Strong professional experience working on distributed Java platforms
- Strong core Java 5 and/or 6 skills (with good understanding of multithreading and performance tuning)
- Proven track record of delivering multi-tier enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design patterns.
- Experience with a relational database management system. Experience with Oracle is a plus
- Experience with highly numeric applications advantageous
- General knowledge of Financial Markets useful but not required
- The candidate should be comfortable working with both UNIX/Linux and Windows environments
Any experience with the following technologies would be a plus:
- - Apache Tomcat, JBOSS application server
- JMX, JMS, Message Queues, JNI, JINI - - Working knowledge of Oracle 11g and/or Microsoft SQL Server
- - Spring, Hibernate3, Java Persistence API
- - JUnit4, Fitnesse, Hudson CI
- - XML, JAXB, JSON serialization
- - MS Excel, VBA
- - Windows, UNIX, shell scripting
- - IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse
- - Grid technologies, GridGain
To apply or for more information, please contact trevor.symons@ojassociates.com