There is an opportunity for an experienced (3+ years) Java Swing developer to join our team, which develops a thin client derivatives trading and order management platform. This is a challenging role using the full software development lifecycle across our product used by tier-1 investment banks. You will work on enhancements to existing components, new project work, maintenance, and 3rd line support. This will involve interpreting business requirements, interfacing with other teams, gathering technical requirements, and implementing these to aggressive deadlines.

It is important that you have a flair for high quality coding, a disciplined approach and an appreciation of testing and quality assurance. You must be able to show sound judgement in choosing a design and coding method that meets aggressive deadlines without compromising quality and system flexibility.

Technically, you will have outstanding knowledge and commercial experience of front-end Java development with an emphasis on implementation.

Skills:

You should already have the skills listed in the essential section coupled with as many as possible from the desirable section. Any skills form the nice to have list is a bonus.

Essential:

3+ years experience with core Java and the Swing API
Experience with complex front-ends
OO methods, design patterns
Ability to work in a team and under pressure to aggressive deadlines
Good knowledge of English language written and spoken
Service minded

Desirable:

Eclipse IDE
ClearCase, ClearQuest
Boss, Tomcat, Apache
HTTP/HTTPS
J2EE (EJB, JMS, Servlets)
ANT
JDBC / SQL / PL/SQL

Nice to have:

Financial Derivatives
TOAD
Relational databases - preferably Oracle
Network Security / Certificates / Firewalls
IIS
SOAP Web Services
XML
UML