Web Developer recruitment
The proprietary TradingScreen platform links institutional investors and sell-side firms together to facilitate order routing, algorithmic trading, execution management, clearing, and additional value-added services, such as pre-trade analysis, real straight-through-processing, post-trade analysis, and prime brokerage enabling across all asset classes. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.
We are seeking a Web Developer – someone who has significant Java client side, web, multithreading, multi-user, and n-tier application development experience. This is a New York based position, requiring someone who has the aspiration to break into the financial services industry after seven or more years of successful professional web application development experience.
The successful candidate will work closely with a small team of java developers, primarily focusing on the development, maintenance and support of its electronic trading and prime brokerage related services. The candidate will also interact with clients as well as TradingScreen peers in London and Tokyo.
Mandatory skills and experience:
• Experience with Google GWT, Ajax, and Java Script
• Multi-threaded java application
• Hands-on Java-based multi-tiered and/or distributed enterprise application development experience
• Strong object oriented design skills
• Minimum seven years professionally in the web application development field
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
Desirable skills and experience:
• Knowledge of open source MVC frameworks like Struts and Tapestry is ideal
• Automated Unit and Integration test experience
• Understanding of web application performance and usability issues
• Web Services (XML/SOAP/WSDL) experience preferable