Java Developer / Software Engineer / Programmer
The Company
Robert Half Technology is working with this leading global brokerage and provider of independent real-time price information from the global OTC financial and commodity markets, to identify a talented Java Programmer / Software Developer to embed themselves into the business, and to leverage strong technical skills to produce elegant, clean code that will help the business and their external clients maintain a competitive advantage. The organisation have a truly global footprint, and trade across a wide range of OTC and exchange listed cash and derivatives markets for fixed income, equities, financials, and commodities. The company are an industry leader, have an unrivalled track record in innovation, and the data they produce is relied upon by customers in over 40 countries as unbiased and non-position influenced pricing data.
The Role
The Java Programmer / Software Developer will utilise their strong knowledge of core Java to work closely with the Market Data team in programming the Java front-end for existing database systems, upgrades, and replacements. The successful applicant will partner the business in developing utilities for operations support staff including the Reuters Foundation API, and will have the opportunity to interact with financial calculation modelling. The work will be a mixture of ad-hoc tactical work, as well as more sophisticated coding work based on project requirements as and when they arise.
In order to be successful within this role the successful Java Developer will need to be proactive, able to think outside of the box, to future proof coding completed, and to produce intelligent, clean, hygienic code. Applicants should have solid OO programming, strong core Java programming skills, and have an understanding of multithreading within Java. The position will comprise analysis and development work, however, candidates should be accustomed to working as part of a small dynamic team to cover the entire software development lifecycle - through to providing cover in production support as an escalation point for the Support team. They should also be able to create and maintain documentation on development aimed at support, developer and user guide levels. Technically the role will involve work with Spring / HTML / JavaScript; database retrieval - Hibernate/JDBC; Transact SQL knowledge / SQL Server 2008; Time Series databases; Microsoft Excel (high knowledge excel). The role will also involve creating monitoring software for real-time debugging of existing systems using a variety of tools incl. Excel, Java, Visual Basic. This is a great opportunity to join a financial services organisation that will offer exposure to the latest technologies, and a genuine career path for talented technologists.
Salary Benefits
£40,000-£45,000/Annum + Bonus Benefits
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply.
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