Immediate hiring for Full Stack - Software Engineering

Job Description

J.P. Morgan s Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $18 trillion of assets under custody and $393 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.The OTC Trade Processing team is part of the Global Clearing business in Equities within the Corporate and Investment Bank. We are responsible for supporting the processing of hundreds of thousands of OTC transactions every day as they flow between our clients and clearing houses. Our global OTC clearing offering covers all major clearing houses and is a clear market differentiator. But equally important is the timely, error-free and efficient processing of client trades, and technology, and specifically the applications supported by our team, plays a crucial part in the provision of these services to our clients. Our global team of 30 has a large presence in Glasgow and Bengaluru; extensive collaboration between locations is a feature of our working environment.Our applications are built predominately in Java and utilize a number of advanced, distributed technologies including Gemfire, Kafka and Cassandra. During the next two years, we are also making a significant further investment in these applications as we seek to shift to containers (Kubernetes) and the cloud (GAIA, GKP and AWS) to increase our resilience, stability, capacity and performanceDevelopers are aligned to one of our Product Teams to work on the roadmap for a particular function and these include: Booking (ensuring timely and accurate updates into our core books and records system); Clearing (interfacing to external parties to affect the clearing of transactions in real time); Affirmation (Ensuring we are able to affirm requests for clearing within 60 seconds); Charging (maintaining fees & commissions schedules which are used to apply charges to trades in real time); Data (addressing data quality, data retention, data models and reference data across all our applications); Modernization (focusing on shifting our applications to the right through the adoption of Kafka messaging, Kubernetes and containers to drive our migration to the cloud). The Product Teams are increasingly mature in the use of agile techniques.Developers typically focus on one of three distinct technical specialists: front-end user experience developers (developing solutions in React, Typescripts and the Markets UI Toolkit); back-end real-time event processing developers (using Java and messaging technologies); full-stack developers who build middleware (typically restful web services and streaming technologies) to integrate solutions front-to-back. Responsibilities
• Design and build scalable and resilient technical solutions
• Work with data services team to identify sources of data (both internal and 3rd party) for data cleansing / enhancement / enrichment/ data warehouse
• Drive the delivery of business value via change programs/projects within the futures & options clearing technology group
• Create automated unit tests using a Test Driven Development approach
• Develop a strong understanding of key functions of clearing, margining & settlements within the OTC world.
• Partner with supporting tech leads to develop realistic and achievable project estimates
• Analysis and build within Control, Stability, Resiliency, Capacity & Performance areas.
• Testing: Unit, SIT & UAT planning and management.
• Robust delivery of code into the production environment with zero tolerance for post implementation issues
• Take part in decisions affecting long range organizational goals & strategic planning.
• Proactively look to develop, implement and further development best practices across the group.
• Contribute to quality improvement, code reviews, code/architecture standards, code reuse etc.
Qualifications and Skills (Required)
• Relevant University degree with at least 2+ years of professional experience
• Very Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Proficient knowledge of core Java (atleast JDK 1.8) with clear understanding of advanced concepts in collection framework, garbage collection, multi threading etc.
• Experience working with Maven, Jenkins, Git/Subversion etc.
• Experience working with related technical frameworks Spring & Hibernate
• Solid understanding of database concepts and working knowledge with any of the vendors(Preferably Oracle) with atleast some exposure to performance tuning
• Ability to take on difficult and complex large scale problems and provide end to end solutions
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders in business, operations, operate etc.
• Some experience of providing production support in a Level2/Level3 capacity
Qualifications and Skills (Nice to have but highly desirable)
• Experience on Cloud Tech. viz AWS, Google Cloud etc
• Strong demonstrated experience with client side technologies HTML, JavaScript, jQuery,Angular JS, React JS etc.
• Experience of working in an Investment Banking context in particular in a Futures & Options department
• Understanding of the trade lifecycle and back office functions: clearing, margining, settlements, collateral, interest, accounting and cash management
• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Experience with Webservices (SOAP or Restful)
• Experience with FIX protocol or FIXML
• Experience with doing heap analysis, profiling etc. using any of the tools
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