Our client, a large international commodity trading company, is expanding its internal software development team and is looking for programmers to join the team working on a new generation risk management and position keeping, and trading management systems.
We are looking for mature software engineers with in-depth experience of writing performance orientated and highly reliable software, who love and understand technology and also understand or are willing to understand the trading business. We expect the joiners to work on a fairly wide range of tasks: from purely business functionality to its underlying technological foundations; we also expect them to come up with well thought-out, simple, robust, testable, and elegant solutions.
Writing performance orientated and highly reliable software in object
riented languages for risk & position keeping system
Delivering within cost, time, and quality constraints of projects
Needs to work closely with business analysts, testers, and project managers
Must have
Ability and willingness to acquire bits of business knowledge and to map software solutions they work on to business problems. Newcomers do not need to be readily proficient in commodity trading but must be willing to learn the relevant business context
Ability and willingness to actively contribute to system quality: re-think and re-work problematic parts, work on automated tests, observability, development ergonomics, etc.
Ability to program in real-world general-purpose programming languages (Scala, Kotlin, Java, C#, etc.) as well as in common scripting languages (bash, Python, etc.). We use Scala but it is okay to have little experience with it
Ability to follow common development practices: version control, code reviews, etc.
Understanding of basic data structures and algorithms along with their performance characteristics
Having a working understanding of databases and common network protocols
Having a sensible idea of how JVM works
Being able to do common tasks in Linux command line
Nice to have
We would generally expect the candidate to be educated to at least degree level (or equivalent) in either Computer Science or another hard science or engineering discipline
Team members should be able to communicate in passable English
Languages
English: B2 Upper Intermediate
Seniority
Senior
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