eCommerce Java Developer recruitment

The candidate will display excellent organizational, motivational, and technical ability aligned to sustained experience within a high-performance technology environment. This will require knowledge of distributed multithreaded development, messaging systems and ability to integrate these with external systems. Strong knowledge of the FX market is essential.

The candidate will work effectively as part of a global team to design and implement real time solutions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Contribute to the overall design and development of the real-time solutions for FX Pricing, Trading or Risk Management.

• Work closely with business sponsors to understand their requirements and architect, design and execute technical solutions.

• Work with other team members to ensure that tactical and strategic solutions dovetail.

• Provide guidance and mentoring for new team members as necessary.

• Identify business, technology and people risks associated with a solution

Assist with 2nd line support as necessary

EDUCATION /OR EXPERIENCERequired

• Significant industrial experience dedicated to FX front office technology (pricing, risk, liquidity aggregation, high frequency trading,  ecommerce, etc)

• Significant experience designing, implementing and delivering complex globally distributed high availability real-time trading systems.

• Experience working with quantitative analysts and developers, traders and risk management

• Experience effectively applying technology best practices and processes to a high-paced Capital Markets organization

• Strong understanding of ECN’s (Reuters, EBS, Lava, Hotspot,  …)

• QA Automated testing and process

Technical 

• Significant experience developing, maintaining, and deploying high-performance, low-latency applications.

• Design abilities, which will involve building designing and deploying managed and unmanaged solutions.

• Multithreaded skills use of current C++/Java frameworks

• Knowledge of messaging systems such as Tibco/RV and how to integrate them natively

Preferred

• Knowledge of Complex Event Processing tools (Apama, StreamBase, etc)

• Experience with ‘Agile’ style development methods

 Behavioural

• Ability to meet client needs without sacrificing deadlines and quality

• Ability to break problems into well-defined and manageable tasks

• Ability to work effectively within global team

• Good written and communication skills

• Ability to liaise with traders, middle office, and IT

• Highly motivated and takes initiative

• Ability to cope with changing priorities

• Takes accountability for own work

• Aligns immediate needs with long-term strategies

• Abides by the RBCCM Code of Conduct