Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver end-to-end projects using an Agile and User Centered Design process.
• Build a next generation trade processing system using a component-based service-oriented architecture and SOLID design principles.
• Work with a real time platform that handles activities like trade and position management, risk management, collateral and interest, margining, fees and commissions, balances, market processing and reporting. ION systems connect to 50+ exchanges globally to provide real time trades and market data to buy-side and sell-side clients.
• Shape the future financial technology stack via innovative low-touch, real-time, high performant ION products.  Innovate, recommend, design and drive forward a product evolution that creates business value for the end user and/or reduces Total Cost of Ownership of the product.
• Hit the ground running with a technology stack that includes Java, C#, HTML5, Guice and Oracle, reporting tools like Jasper Reports and BIRT, and a test automation stack using Robot Framework.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• 3+ years of product development experience in designing and coding complex enterprise applications in Core Java (Java 8+).
• A good understanding of multithreading, design patterns, data structures and algorithms.
• Hands on experience with SQL and some familiarity with database technologies and concepts like DB Partitioning/Sharding/Indexing
• Experience with any dependency injection framework like Spring, Guice
• Experience of test-driven development, which includes Unit and Acceptance / End-to-End Testing
• Experience with Agile software development (e.g., SCRUM or KANBAN) and/or a User Centered Design process.
• Experience with build automation tools like Jenkins pipelines for Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD), maven, gradle.
• Excellent analytical skills and strong lateral thinking
• Able to work in an agile way seeking continuous improvement to reduce waste
• Champion in test automation
• Able to understand customer needs and provide them a good level of support
• Team oriented approach to problem solving
• Good communication skills with active participation in group discussions
• Strong work ethic and sense of ownership.  Take a personal interest in owning dependencies and results; even when not directly their responsibility, using a “see it, say it, sort it” attitude
• Able to assess priority and self-organize tasks

Desirable:

• Experience with, knowledge of, and strong demonstrated interest in, global financial markets and financial products.