Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Refinitiv is the #1 portal for online foreign exchange trading, offering professional customers foreign currency trade execution across both internal and 3rd party venues..  We are seeking highly technical developers for the FX Trading Aggregation and Connectivity Services team.  The objective team is to drive forward the development, architecture and design of next generation of aggregation service and delivering leading venue access.

Job Description:

• Acquire deep understanding of the functionality and the core business logic quickly and gain overall understanding of the existing aggregation platform written in 
• Work with existing senior members in defining and implementing the next stage of the architecture  including cloud migration 
• In addition to coding , daily work includes involve technical design creation, code review, implementation & unit testing and assurance of development best practices. 
• Establish, maintain and report the personal plan and schedule of own assignments. Work within a scrum team to deliver on aggressive targets. 
• Collaborate with the QA teams to define and implement rigorous functional, performance, stability and scalability testing.  Maintain quality of deliveries into QA. 
• Collaborate with support and operations teams to ensure customers receive world class service and the platform operates smoothly without routine manual intervention. Quickly analyze production problems and provide troubleshooting and support

Technical Skills:

• A minimum of 8 years core Java development experience and scripting language such as Python 
• Experience working with high volume, high throughput, and low latency systems (e.g. equities or FX), or similar type of low latency platforms in Java 
• Strong understanding of system analysis , design patterns  and multi-threaded applications.  Keen understanding of the challenges in low-latency development and practical techniques for addressing them 
• Network programming is a plus – TCP, UDP, sockets, multicast 
• Familiar with Agile methodology and its implementation. 
• Minimum of 2 years using the FIX Protocol and standard trading message workflows such as Market Data Snapshot and Updates and Order Entry and Execution 
• Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS and the challenges of Cloud Migration 
• Usage of SDLC tools such as Jira, Confluence, Version control such as GIT, IDE's such as Intellij/ Eclipse, Dependency management such as maven, grade and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or Bamboo 
• Functional usage of Unix/Linux  

Education/Experience :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or other related degree  
• 3 years minimal financial industry experience designing and implementing trading systems. 
• Foreign Exchange experience is a big plus   

Personal Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English 
• Critical and creative thinker; able to think “out of the box”. 
• Excellent problem solving skills.  Able to quickly analyze production issues and provide short-term and long-term remediation. 
• Team player – willing and able to drive collaborative efforts across the organization to improve product quality, reduce expense and increase productivity 
• Ability and interest in working in a dynamic, focused, energetic and rapidly evolving company 
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment