Capital Markets – Java Developer – Specialty

Position Title: Capital Markets – Analyst/Developer – Specialty
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 5 months

Story Behind the Need
Business group: GWRT-GCMT-Commodities, FX Options & Derivatives Technology US – Part of Global Equity Derivatives and Structured Notes business. The Derivatives Technology team is leading the way in developing modern systems to support our Global Capital Markets businesses worldwide.
Project: Looking for a Full stack (10-20% on Front end – Angular) Developer to work on the Structure Note Modernization Project. A Greenfield multi-year program to modernize and transform the Global Equity Derivatives and Structured Notes business technology footprint with full-stack, cloud hosted platforms to increase revenue opportunities and go-to-market velocity’s and go-to-market velocity.
Reason for request: New project requirement
Candidate Value Proposition: Will have the opportunity to work on a unique and very interesting project involving derivatives. Great chance for extension.
Typical Day in Role:

• Development and support of a front-office trading system used for trade booking, trade execution and pricing of derivatives trades.
• Conduct proof of concept on new technologies or solutions around Microservices.
• Participate in design discussions on scalability, performance, security, Microservices best practices.
• Take ownership and responsibility of development of products onboarding to the trading platform and be efficient with sizing and estimates for development.
• Proactively partners with business line representatives to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy.
• Participates as technical or business consultant in design, development, coding, testing, and debugging new packaged solutions or significant enhancements to existing applications.
• Leverage industry best practices & writing clean minimalistic code.
• Generate technical specifications of design and updating confluence.
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment to work with Quants and Traders.
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of service side development experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Boot, spring batch with an emphasis on REST services.
• 3+ years of experience with relational databases & Stored procedures.
• Excellent Computer Science Fundamentals; Object Oriented Design; Java Design Patterns.
• 1-2 years of experience of Shell scripting
• Has Worked in an Agile Environment, problem solving and designing.
• 1-2 years’ Angular (latest versions preferred) experience.

Nice to have Skills:

• Open-source contribution link & professional certification
• Experience Microservices Architecture, Event Driven Architecture
• Knowledge of capital markets and financial instruments, quanto option, allocation tool
• CI/CD Automation & Cloud deployment experience.

Soft Skills Required:

• Great communication skills – both oral and written
• Winning attitude
• Adaptable to a very dynamic environment
• Creative, self-starting, results-oriented, highly motivated
• High attention to detail
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Able to multi-task and work in a fast paced and agile environment

Best vs Average: Seeking a senior Core Java developer. If they have a background working in both the front and back end, this would be a great asset. Some with Public contribution of coding like open-source projects, certifications.
Education: Post – secondary
Candidate Review & Selection:

• Technical panel interview -45 min – video – with HM team member
• Codility Test – 60 minutes at home assessment is must be completed within 48hrs
• Interview with Director – 15-20 min -In person is preferred

Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP