Developer – Silverlight/WPF – Front Office (Single Dealer Platform) – ALPHA recruitment
The successful candidate will be joining some high profile individuals on a greenfield project, working with some of the latest technologies and processes, supporting the ongoing delivery of an exciting eFX programme.
Main responsibilities
- Attend daily scrum meetings in a timely manner
- Analyse/Design/Develop based on “Agile story” requirements
- Ensure there is sufficient “Unit/Fitness” tests in place and these meet acceptance criteria as per story deliverables
- Provide estimates for stories – attend game planning if necessary
- Ability to converse in a professional manner with business sponsors and users
- Keep a positive delivery focused mentality with a “can do” attitude
- Provide estimates for stories – attend game planning if necessary
- Ability to converse in a professional manner with business sponsors and users
- Keep a positive delivery focused mentality with a “can do” attitude
Degree of autonomy
Level of authority
- Reporting to Alpha Tech Lead Programme Manager
- Forming a core part of the Silverlight Development team, supporting Project Management in delivery model
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
Experience Required
Mandatory
- Very strong understanding of C# (v4 and futures) and a solid understanding of CLR fundamentals. Candidates that are not strong here cannot be considered for further review.
- Topics include but are not limited to:
- memory management
- threading/synchronization
- C# language features Linq
- Strong knowledge and working experience of Silverlight (or WPF) with a composite framework like Prism.
Desirable
- Previous working experience on high freq/low latency distribution system. Non-finance based application like betting websites can also fit into this remit.
- Experience in FX, FI, MM, Derivatives eTrading and exposure to front office/trade floor environment
- Agile development practices and use of appropriate tools – TDD, CI, Resharper/Coderush etc
- Knowledge of OO design patterns and principles
- Distributed messaging, SOA, MoM, CQRS, Event Sourcing
- SQL/Oracle ORMs (Entity framework, NHibernate)
- RX desirable
Languages
- English (fluent)
- French (advantageous)
Personal abilities
- Enthusiastic, Technological, Efficiency, Hard-Working, Team-Worker.
May 7, 2012
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