Greenfield Java Software Engineer / Architect, Financial Start-Up, Risk, Big Data, Highly Scalable Systems, Grid Computing, UNCAPPED EQUITY recruitment

Greenfield Server Side Java Developer / Programmer / Software Engineer / Architect, Financial Start-Up, Big Data, Highly Scalable Systems, Grid Computing, Risk, Equities, Fixed Income, Agile, TDD, Continuous Integration, Open Source

Join one of London’s most exciting start-ups – who have just launched a pioneering new concept for the financial markets. They’re building out a highly scalable greenfield platform using big data grid techniques, and are looking for further very strong Java programmers to add to their growing team. Prior finance experience is NOT essential.

An innovative young start-up launched a game-changing new concept for the financial markets earlier this year. They are already looking to expand their development team due to the number of clients they have queuing up since their recent launch, as their enterprise-grade technology platform is key to their offering. This is an opportunity to join at the very beginning of a unique green field development project that would allow you to play a part in shaping the future of finance and be rewarded accordingly. They are fully funded, and no further backing is required.

The role offers:

• Design authority – these guys are at the very beginning of what they’re doing and want someone who can innovate

• Freedom in terms of technology – this is completely greenfield work and they are open on what technologies are the best - evangelising and prototype new technologies is encouraged

• Potential for influence over the strategy and direction taken – these guys are an early stage startup

• The chance to make a lot of money from equity

The firm:

• Start-up company comprising c.10 people

• Building out a buy-side utilities platform for use by institutional investors

• The system will essentially look to analyse risk for investors that can be hidden behind layers of funds and insurance companies

• Their platform pulls in vast amounts of data from different streams, adapts it into their models and serves it up to their clients

• They don’t just offer their clients data on their investments/risk, they also offer controls – e.g. the ability to select a new fund manager

• They’ve just completed their first release, and the work is greenfield, technically complex, and conducted in the ‘right’ way – open source cutting edge technologies, agile / scrum / continuous integration, highly scalable Java systems, big data (Hadoop etc.), web UI (HTML5)

• The potential rewards are huge – and the people joining at this early stage will be the ones who are rewarded the most in terms of stock options. These guys are genuine game changers who’ve created a new concept – there is no firm offering the type of service they are – and the demand is being borne out by the level of business they have already.

They are looking for (REQUIREMENTS):

• They want someone very technical, someone ‘knows and loves Java’, expertise with areas like multithreading / concurrency etc. (essential)

• Experience of building highly scalable platforms (essential)

• Experience of working with large amounts of data (preferred)

• Frameworks (Spring, Hibernate) (preferred)

• Big Data (Hadoop, etc.) (bonus)

• They would be interested in any front end web UI experience too (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS) (bonus)

• Service oriented architecture (SOA)

• They also like people who have extracurricular technical pursuits and can demonstrate a real interest in technology – e.g. reading books/blogs, attending talks/conferences, contributing to open source etc.

The sell:

• Startup financial company, brand new concept, well backed

• All completely greenfield work, technical ownership of brand new systems

• Agile, test driven, fast paced, leveraging the best of the open source community and their own solutions

• Big technical challenges involved

• They have big names on board, including senior people from JP Morgan and Nomura, the ex-head of front office technology from BlueCrest Capital, and some extremely experienced advisors

• No firm out there is offering the type of service they are – it’s a brand new concept – and the fact that there is a big market out there for it is being borne out by the level of interest already

• They have a founding member / ex-CTO of Markit acting as one of their advisors – who has literally been there and done it all before and is now a multi-multi-millionaire

• Stock options – they have followed the example of Markit, where the first employees ended up as millionaires

Greenfield Server Side Java Developer / Programmer / Software Engineer / Architect, Financial Start-Up, Finance, Big Data, Highly Scalable Systems, Grid Computing, Risk, Equities, Fixed Income, Agile, Scrum, TDD, Continuous Integration, Open Source, SE, J2SE, EE, J2EE, Scala, Hibernate, Spring, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Pig, Cassandra, Oracle Coherence, Terracotta, Infinispan

Please apply to lparsons@astoncarter.co.uk / 02079971056