Software Technical Lead

Who are we?

First Derivatives (FD) is a leading software and services company, with world-leading intellectual property in ultra-high-performance analytics (KX) across industries, and extensive domain expertise and capabilities in capital markets systems and technology (managed services and consulting).

Software Technical Lead - Java

Responsibilities :

• Develop / integrate Derivative Trading Applications
• Communicate with business stakeholders including Traders, Operations and Strats.
• Understand and translate business requirements into technical design specifications
• Identify technology solutions for enhancements or new initiatives
• Implement unit and integration test cases with industry standard test automation frameworks.
• Document changes necessary to support business

Mandatory Skills Description :

• 15+ years of enterprise development experience. (JDK 8 or 11)
• 5+ years of experience with Capital Markets is a must
• Experience in Trading, Good knowledge of Financial Instruments, incl. Derivatives and Fixed Income securities.
• Experience developing High-Load Systems
• Working with Distributed Applications
• Using Message Brokers (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar)
• Setting up Cache / In-Memory Data Grids (Redis, Hazel cast, or similar)
• Experience with multiplatform enterprise service development and challenges of data serialization
• REST API (incl. Enterprise Authentication and Authentication)
• Enterprise services (incl. monitoring, state management)
• Expert practitioner of Object-Oriented techniques
• Solid expertise in Concurrency and Multithreading
• Spring (including Spring Boot and Spring Boot Actuator)
• JMS (Active MQ or similar)
• MS SQL Server
• Experience with automated testing (TDD, BDD)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science

Nice-to-Have Skills :

• Experience interfacing with Murex Flex API
• Understanding how Derivative instruments are valued
• Apache Camel (Version 2 or 3)
• Trade life cycle management

KX technology is designed to capture and analyze data to make real-time decisions in a world where data volumes generated by markets and machines are increasing exponentially, and existing technologies fail due to technological or commercial limitations.

KX is widely adopted throughout the financial industry, and is poised for accelerated growth across high-tech manufacturing, automotive, oil and gas, utilities and telecommunications.

Managed Services and Consulting

FD provides a range of services worldwide to its clients in the capital markets sector, including many of the world’s leading banks, focused on supporting mission-critical systems as well as helping them to achieve and maintain regulatory compliance.

FD provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.