Senior Java Engineer (Remote) at Datafin Recruitment

REQUIREMENTS:

• Exceptional Core Java Skills: Your Java skills are top-notch, and you’re ready to leverage them to create cutting-edge solutions.
• Event-Driven Architecture: A deep understanding of Event-driven Architecture patterns and low-latency messaging, including experience with technologies like Kafka.
• API Expertise: A proven track record of designing and implementing secure, public-facing APIs utilizing OAuth2 and REST, along with the development of services that support web UIs. The desire to learn FIX/SBE and other trading related encodings and protocols.
• Microservices and Docker: Experience with microservices architecture and know your way around Docker containers.
• Concurrency and Multithreading: Proficient in concurrency and multithreaded programming, ensuring the efficient execution of your code.
• Performance Optimisation: Can optimise application performance, ensuring that our systems run smoothly and efficiently.
• Distributed Computing: You’ve worked on building fault-tolerant, high-availability, distributed computing systems.
• Injection/Inversion of Control: Familiar with dependency injection and inversion of control principles.
• Automated Testing: Experience with Automated Testing to maintain the reliability of systems.
• Agile and Continuous Delivery: You’ve thrived in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban) and are comfortable with continuous delivery practices, even when collaborating with remote team members.
• Infrastructure Management: Possess some experience in infrastructure management, with a focus on performance, networking, and security.
• Tech Stack Familiarity: Acquainted with our technology stack, which includes Java, Chronicle Queues/Services, MongoDB Atlas, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, TeamCity, Rocky Linux, and React/Redux UIs.

Nice to haves 

• Domain experience in banking/finance and, in particular, FX and cross-border payments
• Experience with trading systems and, in particular, Low-Latency Programming.
• Experience with core payment systems and, in particular, SWIFT MT/MX and ISO20022.
• Development experience working on broker trader platforms, single or multi-deal platforms or FX/Crypto exchanges.
• Some team/project leadership experience.
• Full Stack development experience.