Front office Java developer - Equity Trading at MThree Consulting (New York, NY)

JOB SPECIFICATION: 

Job Title:          Alumni PRO Java Developer – Equity Trading Technology

Area:                AM Equity Trading

Location:         New York

Department:

Equities Trading is a global trading desk within the client's Asset Management, that executes over $5bn a day across all the major markets in the world.  Trading Technology delivers the trading platform that helps traders achieve, and demonstrate, best in class execution for our clients.  The team executes large numbers of small orders, that need to be handled in a fully automated way, to smaller numbers of extremely large orders that demand high levels of sophistication.

 The Opportunity:

We are looking for a highly motivated Java Developer to join the MThree project team and continue to drive the evolution of trading from an art to a science.  Joining a small, elite, global team that works directly with the business and delivers in an Agile way. 

 The role will cover all aspects of software development, from gathering requirements, generating ideas, designing and developing solutions, to testing, releasing and providing 3rd line support. 

 A major focus of the project is a strong automated test framework so knowledge of Test-Driven Development or Behavior Driven Development is important.

 The ideal candidate will have experience of order management systems but will consider exceptional technologists with the desire to learn the trading domain.

 Essential Experience:

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• Strong knowledge of Java
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• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented programming and design
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• Experience of multi-threaded applications and inter-process communications
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• Performance tuning and optimization
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• Testing tools, e.g. JUnit and Mocking frameworks
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 Beneficial Experience:

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• Experience developing in trading or front-office platforms
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• RESTFul web service
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• Dependency injection frameworks e.g. Spring
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• Splunk
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• Team City
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• GIT
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• XML, XSLT
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• Oracle database
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• IBM WebSphere MQ
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• C#
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• SQL
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• Unix shell scripting
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 Personal Traits: 

A passionate technologist. Technology isn't a job, it's what excites them. Individual would be learning about technologies outside their role and show strong views on various technologies.

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• Driven.
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• Ambitious.
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• Self-starter. Actively manages their own career and development.
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• A team player.
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• Dedicated. Is motivated by delivery not hours worked. Will go the extra mile.
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• Assertive.
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