Java Developer (Core Java, Trading Systems)

We are hiring a Java Developer to work for a well-established US Nasdaq-listed financial services company. This is an exciting opportunity to work remotely, joining a development group tasked with building and enhancing a mission-critical platform for scalable, real-time execution.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of Core Java development experience.
• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency event driven multithreaded applications using Core Java.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Strong analytical skills to help development and support teams troubleshoot and fix production issues.
• Deep understanding of large-scale distributed real-time systems architecture and implementations.
• Broad exposure to at least one cloud platform: AWS, Google, Azure.
• Experience with Oracle PL/SQL programming.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong ability to interpret business requirements.
• Creative problem solver.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Cassandra, Redis or Kafka.
• Experience with JavaScript.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JSON, and XML.
• Experience with UNIX / Linux operating systems.
• Experience working on a fixed-income trading platform.

• Creating new features and enhancing functionality on a mission critical platform.
• Adapts and extends existing re-usable components and libraries.
• Develops high quality software while meeting deadlines.
• Presents ideas for system improvements.
• Design or upgrade an existing software to ensure product performance and quality expectations are met.
• Assists with rollout and post production support.

Please note that the working hours must overlap with New York business hours. We strongly prefer a full 8-hour overlap (6:00 AM - 2:00 PM US Eastern Time), but require a minimum of 6 hours of overlap during this window.