Position: Senior Java Developer
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Developing and enhancing a variety of applications and microservices in the field of financial services.
This software engineering role is a Senior Java Developer role within the SwapClear Interfaces development team, reporting into the SwapClear Interfaces development lead. The SwapClear Interfaces team is one of the four key development teams that develop the LCH SwapClear Clearing service, specialising primarily in Java interface development but with some Groovy and web development.
Developers work in small, cross-functional, teams alongside subject matter experts from many disciplines. There are great opportunities to learn and extend experience. Communication and cooperation are key.
Developers are encouraged to experiment and challenge, to investigate new technologies and techniques and understand the complexities of OTC clearing. World-class training, provided by experts from within LSEG is available and developers are encouraged to share their learnings and experiences with other development teams.
Above all, the developer role centres on taking ownership of the delivery of working software into our systemically critical platform that underpins the global financial markets.
In addition to Java, the role involves exposure to other platforms and technologies including Murex, Oracle, Spring, JavaScript and API development.

Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with fellow developers, financial market infrastructure experts, testers, architects and operations teams to deliver working solutions.
• Take ownership of the analysis, design, build and delivery of software components written in Java.
• Take responsibility for identification, estimation and reporting on of progress of tasks.
• Assimilate, challenge, help refine and then apply our architectural principles around scalability, security and fault tolerance.
• Develop a deep understanding of the mechanics of clearing and apply this knowledge.
• Participate in support of the wider platform, potentially joining the on-call rota.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• At least 7 to 10 years of professional experience as a Java developer.
• Domain experience of financial markets / interest rate derivatives.
• Experience of FpML (Financial product markup language), industry standard for sharing information and processing financial derivatives.
• Expert level knowledge of Java 8+, Spring, Spring Boot, XML and JSON.
• Highly experienced with SQL and relational databases (e.g. Oracle).
• Highly experienced with ORM (e.g. JPA / Spring Data / Spring JDBC Template).
• Experienced with developing REST services (REST design principals, Swagger / Open API, Spring REST MVC / JAX-RS).
• Highly experienced with JUnit.
• Highly experienced with Maven, Jenkins, Jira, git and BitBucket (or similar tools).
• Ability to operate within a cross-functional team, working closely with a wide range of people from different disciplines.
• Great verbal and written communication skills, both formal and informal. E.g., a successful candidate will be able to use whiteboard to express a complex design, listen to and process constructive feedback before adapting and refining the design in response. Equally, the developer could produce a formal specification of an API suitable for consumption by external customers and regulators.
• Constructive and collaborative approach to working with technical teams, and handling test failures and potential defects in a positive manner.
• Ability to review and constructively critique code and designs.
• An excellent drive to solve problems 'the right way', and a logical approach to investigating issues.