Salary: £120-140k base + £40-60k bonus
Job Description:
Fantastic chance for a Java engineer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team forms the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.
You will be building the next-generation distributed risk and pricing platform. Greenfield work, you’ll develop and enhance the platform – utilising Kubernetes, microservices, AWS and Docker on multithreaded systems. It’s a highly technical role, so they are very happy to bring someone in from outside of the financial world, as you will get to learn more about various financial products on the job whilst providing value to the team with your excellent Java ability.
Skills and Experience Required:
- 4+ years’ development experience in Java
- Solid experience of multi-threading and distributed computing
- Strong knowledge of various design patterns, algorithms and data structures
- Degree in Computer Science (or other scientific field)
- Finance experience not needed
Desirable:
- Microservices architecture experience
- Experience with: cross-asset pricing and risk systems and/or SQL and NoSQL DBs
- Familiar with Docker/Kubernetes, Istio
Benefits & Incentives:
- Significant salary
- Greenfield work / big impact
- Very collaborative culture, ideas are implemented
- Work-from-home opportunities (3 office / 2 wfh split is the weekly norm)