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JAVA SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Financial or Trading Firm

SALARY: $115K - $130K, Add 20% for NYC, NJ, or California

Location: 100% REMOTE

Looking for a Java Software Engineer with 2-4 years Java, SpringBoot, Multi-Threading. Real Time and trading systems or financial experience.

Job Description

This position entails building and maintaining reliable high-performance software applications that are part of the FX trading platform

The right candidate is responsible for:

• Code, test, debug, and document technical assignments
• Translate business requirements into technical details
• Use business and application development knowledge to propose high-level technical and procedural solutions
• Deliver high-quality solutions and designs
• Analyze and recommend technologies and tools to improve efficiency and quality of the development process
• Documenting any relevant details in the wiki for a self-sustaining product

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2-4 years' of experience in:
• A Software Engineering role in a Real Time trading related position, with recent and demonstrable experience writing highly performant, well tested, and elegant code in Java
• Building and maintaining Real Time trading systems that are multithreaded and distributed
• Developing highly distributed and fail-safe systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Strong communication skills, and ability to work with staff in operations and sales
• Ability to optimize applications/systems for performance
• Self-directed, self-motivated
• Preferable to have 2-4 years' experience with the following:
• Big Data, KDB, or map/reduce environments
• PostgresSQL or other RDBMS
• Git or similar version control system
• Environments running 24x7 applications with limited downtime
• Knowledge of order handling and protocols such as FIX and market data processing and distribution
• Web experience with single page apps
• Finance industry experience/knowledge
• Small company experience