Senior Java Developer for Counterparty Risk

Job brief:

This position is focused on development of ultra-critical systems, their stability and responsiveness close to real-time. Counterparty Risk Department provides efficient risk management for Counterparty Risk from Derivatives and Financing business. A team of up to 20 people will participate on applications used by entire bank.

You will be responsible for:

• Develop the application landscape of counterparty risk.
• Work in an agile development environment (BizDevOps).
• Work with 100% in-house development systems (mainly Java & SQL DBs on LINUX and some running in Cloud).
• Support teams iterative move towards new technologies.
• Implement the concepts and associated automated tests and create technical documentation.

Main skills:

• 4+ years of professional IT experience.
• Very good understanding of Java (Spring) programming, especially multithreading and parallel processing.
• LINUX / UNIX scripting.
• Hands-on experience with software engineering principles and conceptual thinking.
• Good understanding of Cloud computing (Google Cloud or MS Azure).
• Knowledge of OOD, OOP, design patterns, new architectures, cloud computing and architectures, best programming practices, enterprise patterns of SOA, testing.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and work with databases.

Nice to have knowledge:

• Some knowledge of Python or R or Scripting (tools such as Elastic Search/Kibana, Kafka, Built-Pipelines/Jenkins/Ansible, JIRA).
• Knowledge of frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate.
• Basic knowledge of investment banking products (options, swaps, etc.) and risk processes (credit and/or market risk) or financial engineering/CFA.

Personal skills:

• Fluency in English both written and spoken;
• High analytical thinking with attention to detail and problem solving attitude;
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills;
• Good team player with high ability to work in international teams;
• Previous experience working in an agile environment;
• University degree (MSc preferred) in: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, etc.