Experience Desired              Proven Experience                         

Education Desired                Bachelors Degree or equivalent                                                                                     

Position Responsibilities       There is an opportunity for an experienced 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, documentation, 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 judgment in choosing a design and coding method that meets deadlines without compromising quality and system flexibility.

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

You will be responsible for the full project lifecycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, project planning, time estimation, coding, test, delivery, maintenance, documentation, and support. You will also be expected to be flexible working in an environment with changing requirements and priorities.                  

Position Requirements          Required skills:

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
 Complex JTable components (e.g. tree tables, filtering, sorting, real time updates)
 Swing threading model
 Layout managers
 Applets / Webstart
 Relational databases - preferably Oracle

Desired Skills:

 Eclipse IDE
 JBoss, Tomcat, Apache
 HTTP/HTTPS
 J2EE (EJB, JMS, Servlets)
 ANT
 JDBC / SQL / PL/SQL
 Financial Derivatives
 TOAD
 Network Security / Certificates / Firewalls
 SOAP Web Services
  UML