Java/Scala Developer

Our client, a large international commodity trading company, is expanding its internal software development team and is looking for programmers to join the team working on market data provisioning system.

We are looking for software engineers, who are willing to code in Scala, who love and understand technology and also understand or are willing to understand the trading business. We expect the joiners to work on a fairly wide range of tasks and also expect them to come up with well thought-out, simple, robust, testable, and elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

Writing reliable software for market data distribution system

Delivering within cost, time, and quality constraints of projects

Needs to work closely with business analysts, testers, and project managers

Skills

Must have

We do not set any specific technology skill as an absolute requirement; however the candidates should be able to demonstrate that they:

Can program in a real-world object-oriented programming language (Java, Scala), preferably in multiple languages suitable for different purposes

Understand how the basic data structures and algorithms work, can program and use them, and can assess their performance

Understand common programming practices, like version control, unit testing, automated regression testing and continuous integration, etc.

Have strong desire to write good, maintainable code

Can solve routine tasks such as writing a simple script or querying a relational database

Have strong analytical and mathematical skills

Can communicate with their colleagues in English

Nice to have

Experience with Scala and ability to write good Scala code are a big plus

Some knowledge of commodities trading and corresponding market data

Experience of any functional languages

Fluency with git and Linux command line

Experience with Oracle, MSSQL, REST API

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior