Java/Scala Developer

Position Description:
The Trade Surveillance team builds and executes complex surveillance models that focus on monitoring the trading practices of the Firm's front office functions. A senior developer in this space partners with business analysts and other developers to drive forward the business agenda through solid design and execution.

Responsibilities:

• Read and understand requirements for market abuse models
• Write Java code that accurately reflects the requirements and design documents.
• Write unit tests that exercise all major logic components of the code.
• Deploy, maintain and performance tune all models.

Required Skills:

• Experienced with Core Java and with Scala, preferably on Spark (Hadoop)
• Database experience preferably with DB2, Sybase, or Oracle
• The candidate should have 3 or more years of experience coding.
• He/she should be capable of understanding and solving complex problems
• Big Data experience
• Full Stack experience
• Financial services experience required
• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach
• SQL (3+ years)
• Version control - Git
• UI experience
• Spring
• Bachelor Degree or higher
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience following the SDLC (Waterfall, Agile)

Skills Desired:

• Previous experience in Trade Surveillance or working with data from the order lifecycle
• High quality software architecture and design methodologies and patterns
• Work experience as level-3 support for applications
• Layered Architecture, Component based Architecture
• XML-based technologies
• Unix OS, Scripting, Python or Perl
• Experience in development on other application types (Web applications, batch, or streaming)