Principal Java Developer

Job Description

Fantastic opportunity to join a product focused organisation who offer infrastructure solutions to leading financial service firms. This is great for someone who is well experienced and interested to join a team of predominantly seniors slotting into a culture that puts autonomy and output first.

Feel free to reach out to me directly on LinkedIn for a confidential discussion.

The Client

Is a prominent worldwide financial services company, who are listed on the NASDAQ.

They give organisations seeking to save costs and lessen operational overhead a compelling option by offering best-in-class on-demand co-located infrastructure and connectivity, priced on a month-to-month basis.

The Client additionally provides a high-performance FX matching and aggregation platform as a service. Through a web-based user interface, the system offers intelligent order routing, price aggregation, and highly adjustable price distribution in a single integrated solution. They deliver a powerful, affordable solution to eFX needs with advanced liquidity management, real-time TCA, and low latency pre-trade credit component.

The Role

You'll be working on their core infrastructure as a service platform, which is utilised by some of the biggest names in financial services.

The work will entail designing, implementing, and managing dependable, effective micro-services platforms. This position requires someone who can work well autonomously and with a strong sense of ownership, as well as collaborate with the rest of our development This position requires someone who can work well autonomously and with a strong sense of ownership, as well as collaborate with the rest of our development team.

It would be great if you have:

  • A love of technology, together with the capacity and drive to learn new technologies
  • Experience in managing products from design to delivery
  • Proven ability to write high-quality, maintainable code
  • Commercial Java experience (8+)
  • Utilization of Micronaut/Spring (or comparable) Frameworks
  • Using Relational and NoSQL databases when developing (MongoDB, Postgres etc)
  • Knowledge of unit testing frameworks and methodologies, such as Spock and Junit
  • Gradle/Maven build systems
  • Experience with Docker

Bonus experience:

  • Experience creating reactive or functional patterns (RXJava, Project Reactor etc)
  • Experience designing/creating Micro-services platforms
  • Utilization of messaging platforms like RabbitMQ and Kafka
  • Groovy, Ruby, and Python scripting languages
  • Delivery, automated testing, and CI/CD tools (Teamcity, Jenkins etc)
  • Understanding of the UDP, TCP, and HTTP networking protocols
  • REST and WebSockets experience
  • Git is preferred for version control.
  • experience with Grails Framework
  • Bootstrap, JQuery & JavaScript

Pay/Benefits

  • £85,000 - £95,000
  • Market leading Pension Scheme (double figures)
  • Private Health Care (includes Family)
  • Optional International Travel - USA
  • Remote working flexibility

For further information on this vacancy, or any other Java/Javascript/Golang jobs in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link or contact Ben Sidebotham on Linkedin or Phone- 02890 330 250.