Software Engineer (Java) Amsterdam Group 2

You will be working on a Trading platform which consists of multiple components that enables real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations which are driven by new banking regulations . This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with 7-9 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore). What we are looking forWe are in search of a strong Developer who is technically passionate, solution-focused and able to contribute to design, development, test automation and hardening (security, stability, deployment) of our components As a Software Engineer you will:• Work on the latest technologies with a strong focus on performance, large data sets and towards event-driven architecture.• Build distributed systems utilizing in-memory grid frameworks (Apache Ignite, GridGain)• Influence technology choices and architecture of newly built components and services• Use Java 8+ and other JVM language (interest or experience in Kotlin, Scala, Closure is a pre)• Aim for serverless solutions based on Linux, virtualization, containers, docker, kubernetes, possibly in PROD, but at least for testing.• Design and develop automated unit, integration and regression tests. Your key competencies:• Willingness to listen to, understand, learn from, but also give back to your (international) colleagues.• Focus on delivering working software of high quality that satisfies customer requirements.• You are curious and understand the latest developments in the technical and financial services.• You are comfortable discussing features with stakeholders and product owner and can translate the information gained into stories and working software with real business value.• You have curiosity to learn and understand fundamentals (e.g., serialization, threading, transactions, functional programming benefits) even when using high-level technologies and frameworks.• You have experience in Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery tooling/practices. What you bring to the team• A University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent• 3+ years of software engineering in JVM language and related technology stack• Experience in developing automated testing• Comfortable with relational databases and SQL (we mainly use Oracle and PL/SQL). Familiarity and working experience with other DB types is a pre.• Familiarity with source control, CI/CD and documentation tools: we use Azure DevOps, Confluence, Fortify, Git, Maven• Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts• Good communication skills in English• Strong analytical skills, proactivity and ability to work in cross-border international teams• Comfortable with remote collaboration tools (MS Teams), inner drive to stay productive in Work From Home world at least for some part of your time.