Java Backend Developer

We developing one of the best trading platforms in the USA, serving more than 200k online users each day working over desktops, mobile and web.

Platform backend services are responsible for all business processes related to trading: order issuing, validation, routing, execution, option price calculation, reconciliation, etc. High performance, low-latency and fault tolerance is our daily job. We strive for code quality performing careful code reviews and various types of testing.

Teams co-exist in a Scrum/Kanban environment backed by Atlassian suite, Slack, TeamCity, Sonar, Docker, etc.

Teams are multi-cultural and distributed, typically consisting of 3-7 BE engineers balanced by QAs, FEs, BAs…

Major parts of our stack:

• Java 11+, Collections, Streams, Threads, Concurrency, Azul JVM
• Spring, JUnit5, AssertJ, Mockito
• Docker, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Splunk

Requirements

What we expect from you:

• passion to code in Java
• exposure to Java (J2SE) platform, understanding what's happening under the hood: threads, collections, streams, memory, garbage collector
• foundation in computer science data structures, algorithms and their complexities
• desire to optimise, document and maintain code and also carefully cover it with tests
• willingness and energy to take your ideas all the way from proof of concept to production-proof code
• general responsibility and result-oriented mindset
• desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues and ability to provide/accept constructive feedback
• B1+ English to be able to communicate with multicultural teams and a US customer

What makes us happier:

• trading and capital markets background
• hands-on experience in concurrent programming and understanding of thread synchronisation approaches
• exposure to distributed systems, following strong performance and reliability requirements
• foundation in asynchronous communications
• solid Unix/Linux knowledge