Senior Java Developer -- Capital Markets and Foreign Exchange -- 38067

Location Address: Financial District, Toronto - as of now, mandate is to come in 2-3x/week starting in September, this is subject to change for the team

Contract Duration: 6 months

Possibility of extension: Yes, Good possibility to extend upto 2 years

Number of Positions: 1

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

Business group: GBME - Commodities, FX Options & Derivatives Technology - Provides foreign exchange products and services to retail, commercial, institutional and corporate clients.

Project: eFX (electronic FX trading)

Candidate Value Proposition:

The successful candidate will have an opportunity to significantly impact processes within Capital Markets. Integrating new technology, this candidate will work with objects that promote reusability.

As a Software Engineer of the Foreign Exchange Technology Development Team, you will participate in all of software delivery life cycle to deliver high demand services for the bank’s trading platforms to support the foreign exchange business. The incumbent will design, create, implement, and maintain software, applications, and other computer systems. The incumbent typically collaborates with project managers and other software developers to develop software based on given requirements. Someone in this role should have strong problem-solving skills, allowing them to perform updates and enhancements on current systems, and find solutions for systems that may not be working properly. The incumbent will also create operational manuals and documentation for the software developed.

Typical Day in Role

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications

• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts

• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution

• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area

• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment

• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

• Role split is 80% development (even split of building new features and integration activities) and 20% testing and documentation

Must Have Skills:

1) 10+ years core Java Development (version 8.0 or above)

2) 10+ years’ experience with database development using SQL

3) 10+ years’ experience with shell scripting working in a Unix/Linux environment

3) 5+ years Spring Boot experience

4) 3+ years’ experience with front end GUI development (JavaScript/Angular)

Nice-To-Have Skills:

- Recent Capital Markets Celer and/or ION Wallstreet experience is a plus and will be prioritized

- KX kdb+ experience will be prioritized

Education:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Best VS. Average Candidate:

The ideal candidate will have hands-on development experience using Java, SQL, Springboot and shell scripting. Recent Capital Markets Celer and/or ION Wallstreet will be highly preferred.

Candidate Review & Selection

- Interview format: Panel interview with HM and team - 1 hour

- 1 round: Technical and Behavioral questions based on previous experience.