Engineer Backend

Job Description

On your first day, we will expect you to have: 

A creative approach towards solving technical problems fast, as part of an L3 Rota: intra-day and on-call; 

Desire and ability to learn, debug and investigate across complex system landscape; 

Strong analytical skills; 

Demonstrable SW Development experience; 

In-depth understanding of SDLC; 

Ability to work with modern frameworks and tools, ability to analyse and learn; 

Understanding of asynchronous communication patterns and event-driven architecture; 

Java: 

Demonstrable knowledge of Java SE fundamentals, including the Collections Framework, Generics, and Exception Handling;  

Hands-on experience with modern Java features (Java 17 or higher), including Streams API, Lambda expressions, and Records;  

Good understanding of multithreading, concurrency patterns, and memory management (JVM internals);  

Proven ability to write testable code using JUnit and Mockito for comprehensive unit and integration testing 

Ability to deliver clean, maintainable, and efficient Java code that adheres to industry best practices 

Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through systematic debugging and JVM tuning 

Ability to conduct thorough code reviews 

Knowledge of TeamCity/Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, GIT, GCP, Kubernetes; 

In-depth understanding of software quality and maintainability, including participation in QA automation process; 

SQL, Bash, Linux basic knowledge 

Excellent communication skills in English. 

Nice to have: 

Experience in Capital Markets, preferably Trading systems; 

Design Patterns; 

Message brokers: JMS/Kafka/RabbitMq/IBMMQ/Solace; 

Experience with supporting live critical systems; 

FIX Protocol.