Application Platform Java Developer

Overview

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have relied on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets. For more information, visit:

Role

The Application Platform Java Developer reports to Richard Christy and will be part of the team to architect, design, and develop the next generation architecture for the Sky Road platform. The Sky Road platform provides trade processing, portfolio management, portfolio optimization, compliance, and credit management functions for alternative asset managers. Working under Rich’s guidance along with the other members of the Application Platform team, this role will focus on improving the scalability, performance, and functionality to build the next generation Sky Road architecture. Java/Spring and database skills, good communication and teamwork skills, and motivation to learn new skills are key to this role.

Key Responsibilities

Improve scalability, reliability and performance of the Sky Road platform architecture to allow the application to scale to accommodate additional clients, features, and data volumes

Improve the architecture to provide additional infrastructure to support features such as real-time event processing, integrating real-time external interfaces and data warehousing

Assist in timely resolution of incidents and support day-to-day operations when issues occur in production

Write automated JUnit and regression tests

Help to improve and maintain documentation for internal team members

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Java experience, at least 5 years

Experience with Spring Boot framework, Spring Security framework, JPA at least 5 years

Experience with Relational/No SQL Databases, at least 5 years

Experience with Java Messaging Service (SQS, Kafka or similar)

Experience with Hazelcast, Google Guava, or equivalent Java Cache technologies

Experience with using AWS services to build application frameworks (i.e. AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Load Balancers, AWS database technologies)

Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Git, Jenkins, Java IDEs

Desired Qualifications

Experience with any of the following technologies: Hibernate, Snowflake, Graph QL, Python, JSON, HTML

Experience with server-side API frameworks such as REST and/or Web Sockets being called by a client-side contemporary web framework (i.e. Angular or React)

Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and test frameworks such as JUnit/Mockito

Committed to maintaining a clean, readable, and consistent codebase by making thoughtful and well-integrated contributions and participating in GIT pull-requests/code reviews

Familiarity building Financial Software Applications, specifically trade/position keeping systems

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Code Feedback

is genuinely taken into consideration and can similarly be given via discussion and code reviews

Feature/Bug Fix Delivery

without frequent occurrence of significant rollbacks or issues

Time Management

of simultaneous short/long term projects including estimation, planning, development, and delivery

Production support

of the Sky Road platform including diagnosis, data correction, and solution suggestion

The salary range estimate for this position is

$110,000 - $150,000

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Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.

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