Software Developer - Market Risk

Market leading investment bank requires a Java Developer to join their Market Risk Technology team in Montreal. This is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated individual to contribute to the team locally, while working within a broader global team. The team is part of a new and exciting department which aims to unify the business platforms across senior management, trading desks and trading management, risk managers and risk analytics among others.

You will:

• Work on developing new and enhancing existing Market Risk applications
• Be part of an Agile squad with members in Montreal, Budapest, India, London, and New York, following Agile principles and applying DevOps practices
• Be able to work with their business partners
• Shape the tooling and technology landscape of Risk Management, by introducing tools enabling better business processes required for meeting Firm’s regulatory obligations

Skills Required:

• 2+ Years hands-on experience with Core-Java (server-side), Spring, RDBMS
• Strong object-oriented design and development skills, data-structures and algorithms, and design patterns
• A good understanding of how to build multi-threaded applications and hands-on experience with concurrency packages
• Excellent analytical ability
• Experience with distributed data processing pipelines using Spark, Hive, Python, and other tools and languages
• A culture of incorporating unit test cases when designing systems using Junit
• Strong experience with relational databases logical modelling
• Strength in querying large relational databases in an optimized manner
• Ability to write scripts in Shell/Perl/Python
• Agile Development Experience
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Risk/Financial Systems development experience
• Automated testing
• Apache Spark
• Cloud technologies