IT - Risk Java Developer - London
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Job description
The Risk Technology team develops and maintains high-performance position keeping and valuation software for global trading. These trade booking and risk management systems power signals for strategies, treasury operations and risk management.
We focus on optimising every component of the stack-including multi-threading, network communication and encoding, to achieve low latency and high throughput. Robust monitoring, alerting, and performance tracking ensure system reliability and uptime. The team possesses deep expertise in complex event processing systems, network architectures, and concurrent computing, supporting a complex and high-frequency trading landscape.
We work closely with the Chief Risk Officer and wider Risk, Operations, Trading and Quant teams. Our internal customers cover the whole spectrum of risk, from low latency signals for strategies through point in time and historical regulatory reporting, then on to forward looking stress testing and VaR models., * Develop and maintain efficient Java-based applications and components, ensuring high-quality code and adherence to coding standards.
- Understand end to end risk data flows.
- Improve our automation framework.
- Identify and fix inefficiencies in the plant.
- Maintain and enhance in-house shared libraries to ensure their reliability and effectiveness.
- Write robust, maintainable, automatically tested and well-documented code to meet project goals and deadlines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve software defects and technical issues to minimise disruption in revenue-generating processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features.
- Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to enhance the code.
- Maintain and enforce good quality internal documentation., * An amazing global culture who are ambitious, innovative and fun while working with the highest levels of honesty and integrity.
- Two discretionary bonus awards a year.
- A range of benefits in line with local market practice.
- Regular fun events and activities, as well as Social Impact volunteering days.
A strong culture is a common denominator among the most successful companies and B2C2 is proud to be a values-based company.
Requirements
- Experience in TradFi spot FX, rates or equity markets.
- 5+ years of software development in Core Java (J2SE).
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming concepts, and design patterns for performance, scalability and safety of delivered solutions.
- Clean and efficient coding style.
- Comfortable writing automated tests for their code and extending coverage for existing code.
- Experience taking ownership of projects and features end-to-end, from inception to delivery.
- Experience in providing production support to business-critical services.
- Comfortable with ownership & autonomy.
- Ability to work with people at all levels of the organisation., * Experience in TradFi or DeFi derivatives markets.
- Understanding of network technologies and protocols (e.g. TCP, gRPC, SBE).
- Experience with asynchronous event-driven applications.
- Understanding of low GC, highly efficient coding in Java.
- Experience with Kafka, Redis or Aeron.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and/or AWS.
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
- Comfortable coding in Python.
- Interest in crypto.
