eFX Java Dev Engineer - Associate

Department Overview:

The implementation of the Broadway application for eFX trading is a strategic project, securing ING’s place in a fast-paced market. This project has strict timelines with an essential focus on delivery. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role:

As a Dev Engineer in our eFX Digitalisation transformation programme, you will help deliver the key milestones on the eFX Trading platform. The in-house built high-performance pricing systems and interfaces, together with the vendor-built trading/quoting systems, time-series databases and complex event processing engines are key platforms for the real-time low-latency landscape in scope of the growing Financial Markets domain.

Part of a cross-border (London and Bucharest) team you work on the backlog prioritized by a Product Manager. You work with your peers (Quant-developers and dev engineers) and Ops team to ensure all code released to production is robust, secure and bug free, utilising automated testing and peer-to-peer code review techniques. 

Delivery and Improvements:

• Design and develop new features from scratch and improve existing ones.

• Do code reviews, write unit tests, make code refactoring and take care of technical debt.

• Align and discuss solutions directly with eTraders.

• Work in an agile environment, based on a lot of research, collaboration and "learn from failure" way of working, with highly impactful deliveries.

• Have a direct impact on the business improvements through developing and being part of the strategic deliveries.

• Provide hands-on support to colleagues when investigating production issues/outages.

Candidate Profile

Qualification/Education 

• Essential: graduate in Computer Science or related degree.

Experience/Knowledge

• Experience: c5 years of industry experience, preferably in Financial Markets

Tech stack/ knowledge: 

Essential: 

• Highly proficient development skills – core server-side Java, multi-threading

• Strong design (patterns), algorithms and data structures knowledge

• Experience with the entire software development life cycle

• Experience with building services from scratch and developing on top of existing components

• Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts. Interactions with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Maven

Nice to have: 

• Experience with messaging technologies and protocols

• Experience in optimising software for performance

• Banking/Financial Markets products/processes knowledge (FX Products, FIX protocol)

• Flexibility in development technologies. Expected to work with different technologies and languages (KDB, Proprietary Software, Java, Python)

• Experience with quant development, pricing algorithms or trading strategies.

Personal Competencies:

Essential:

• Hands-on mentality

• Proactive behaviour and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance

• Ability to deliver without much supervision

• Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology

• Genuine team player

Nice to have:

• Passion for mentoring junior colleagues

• Clear, concise and transparent communicator

• Foreign languages: English (advanced spoken and written is a must)

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in, preferably, an IT related field 

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