Senior Java Developer

About the Company : Financial Market Digital Channels team is driven to provide world-class technology to support the bank's Financial Markets business, working specifically on the bank's in-house built pricing, execution and trade processing platform. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial markets domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful, and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.

About the Role : A proactive, self-starting developer who can quickly understand the requirements, technology platform, and external integrations and start designing and contributing to the delivery.

Responsibilities :

• Liaise with DevOps and wider team to effectively manage resource usage
• Apply your experience of financial markets, electronic trade capture, booking, and full lifecycle to build these features into our platform
• Work within the ever-evolving framework of Financial Markets specifications and regulations to ensure CAT is using best-in-class technology within the boundaries of approved technologies
• Build services with an API-first approach and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions - optimized compute / performance, functional, visualization, quality control
• Implement and enforce safe defensive coding, intelligent design, access control, in low-maintenance supportable applications
• Support database integration / migration (postgres / mongo), caching (hazelcast), communication (solace), security (hashicorp, SSO tokens, Kong integration)
• Effectively and proactively manage resource usage
• Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance
• Provide Production L3 support as required, to this delivery and the wider platform. We have users from Asia to New York, and you'll be part of a global team of developers
• Face-off and partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions - deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role
• Question / Challenge anything you see from your peers or the wider squad that isn't up to standard
• You are expected to be an experienced developer in designing, building, deploying, and supporting critical solutions in the Financial Markets domain. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities.

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