Senior Back-end Developer for Global Investment Bank (FO)

Looking for highly motivated hands on developer, with strong Java, UNIX, Scripting and database skills who preferably has some Fixed Income product knowledge (especially bonds). Some knowledge/experience on C/C++ will be a plus. This resource will be primarily working on development / enhancements / rewrite of the apps, but will also be taking ownership of some of the existing applications.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development / maintenance / private cloud migration of eTrading application for JGB Pricing and Order Management/Execution, and take responsibility for testing/rollout of these migration/rewrite projects
• Interact with the business (FI Trading), other technology teams, as well as other Corporate departments such as PC, Finance, Compliance to understand their issues/queries and deliver solutions that meet them
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level production support for Japan domestic apps for managing position and Risk, and contribute to delivery of enhancement requests raised by users on these applications
• Impact Analysis and implementation of Market changes, regulatory changes across legacy apps
• Take full ownership of application releases, regression tests, and adopt Automation, DevOps and IT transformation into the legacy apps wherever possible, without impacting the stability of these apps

Requirements

Mandatory

• 5-6 years hands on development experience in JAVA, Spring on Linux with scripting (Perl/Shell) skills
• Strong database skills (Sybase/other)
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Good command of oral and written English and preferably strong/business level Japanese
• Familiar with design patterns and multi-tier enterprise application architecture
• Unit testing (Junit, Mock frameworks)
• Familiar with scheduling agents like Autosys, etc.,
• Team player, able to work effectively within a local/global team

Preferred

• Good concepts including: SDLC and best practices, distributed transaction processing, and experience in analysing and defining technical requirements from business documentation.
• Prior knowledge of software development in financial industry, and Fixed Income domain knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with C/C++ is a plus, as some parts of the legacy applications are written in C.
• Working knowledge of DevOps, Cloud, Automation frameworks