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Role: Senior Java Developer
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow, UK (Hybrid)
Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time
The Role
As a Senior Java Developer, you will be part of a global front-office technology team that builds and supports the platform enabling this market-leading business. This role is a hands-on development role, and you will work on a real-time event driven system to help renovate and modernize parts of the system as well enhance the system to support exponential growth in business event processing and data volumes. You will be working in a complex real-time Linux based environment with multi-threaded java and good working knowledge of an RDBMS.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure Java applications.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable Java code following best practices.
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and high-performance microservices using Spring Boot.
- Handle asynchronous processing using Kafka or Message Queues (MQ).
- Design and optimize database schemas for MongoDB (NoSQL).
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries for relational databases.
- Write unit and integration tests using Junit and other testing frameworks
- Take full ownership of feature development from design to production.
- Work independently while collaborating, when necessary, with cross-functional teams.
Your Profile
Essential Skills/knowledge/experience
- Java Server Side Concurrent Programming with Spring Boot (Core Spring), Junit.
- Understanding of message-based architectures (MQ/Kafka).
- RDBMS Sybase and/or DB2 is preferable, with proficiency in writing complex SQL queries.
- Unix/Linux scripting (Shell/Python).
- Good Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Full software development lifecycle understanding.
- Good software development practices.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- An interest to learn the business supported by the applications.
Desirable Skills/knowledge/experience
- MongoDB.
- Knowledge of the Equity Derivative business.
- Experience with cloud offerings (Azure/AWS).
- Some experience of technologies such as MongoDB, Kafka, IBM MQ, snowflake or other leading edge high performant data and caching technologies would be helpful.
