Senior JavaScript Developer

In this role you will be working on a single dealer platform which maintains all client facing applications for this banks FX trading.

You will be creating panels and services for FX trading applications that livestream data. They have constant changes to the products meaning multiple releases per month.

Tech: JS/React/Redux/REST/Websockets

Key Experience:

• Banking/FS experience is a must have
• Communication skills need to be good as you will be interacting with clients (hedge funds) and internal users (FX traders/sales team)

Opportunity: This company are undergoing an agile transformation, lots of new roles are being created and you could be a chapter lead or Head of UI in 18 months.

Key Skills Needed:

• Strong Javascript development skills with excellent design and problem solving skills as well the ability to analyse code to identify performance bottlenecks
• Knowledge of modern Javascript, using either functional or object oriented programming and a familiarity with the latest frameworks (React/Redux/Webpack)
• Large-scale enterprise design experience and developing scalable applications.
• experience with automated testing at all levels
• Experience working with all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from working with stakeholders to refine requirements to deploying and supporting software in production
• Experience working with Agile methodologies, especially Scrum
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills

For more information please contact Charlie Warren

JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End / Banking
JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End / Banking
JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End / Banking
JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End / Banking

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Mulitnational Retail Banking firm seek a number of expereinced Java Developers. Providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle with an emphasis on server side Java development. Multi year project working on the replacment of the firms core banking platfom. The vast majority of the work will be greenfield development. 1 Day per week in the office.

• Be able to function in a culture of Agile Development (Scrum/Kanban, Amigos, Estimating, Planning, Sprints, Demos, Retrospectives)
• BDD/Gherkin
• Be Delivery-focused
• Continuously seek to improve on Velocity, Lead/Cycle Time, Quality and Process.
• Estimating, planning, managing tasks and reporting on progress.
• Work with the Atlassian suite of Tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket) for tracking progress and KPI monitoring.
• Retail Digital Banking/Finance preferred
• Demonstrate server-side software coding maturity using Java 11+ but also knowledge of SQL (DB2 / SQL Server / Postgres preferred).
• Demonstrate excellent use of Design Patterns / Micro Services/ RESTful APIs
• Basic capability in UI Development using advanced JavaScript (React and Node.js preferred) HTML, CSS

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

UI Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist – London

A Major Asset Management firm that provides front to back-office services to select third party managers and financial institutions are looking for a UI QA Specialist to join their team in London. This is a fantastic opportunity, not only to join a growing company working with the latest tools and technologies in the market but also offers a highly competitive compensation package with flexible working for a great work/life balance.

As a UI Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist you will be part of a development group that is currently made up of around 40 React and C# developers, organised into feature teams, with each feature team containing a mix of front and back-end skills.

The stack is comprised of React/Redux/TypeScript frontend, C# .Net Core services which call into a proprietary C++ quant library. Hosted on Linux in AWS with large calculations distributed over many instances, messaging via Redis.

Source control, CI, CD and issue tracking are all done in GitLab. Daily deployments to production using Terraform and CloudFormation to provision AWS Elastic Container Service clusters, Elastic Beanstalk environments and API Gateways.

Features and prioritisation come from our Product Owner, coordination of our Kanban workflow from our Programme Manager. You will work hand in hand with a world class quant analysis group who continue to enhance the C++ quant library.

Key Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience as a UIWeb QA Specialist
• Exceptional attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Advanced knowledge of exploratory testing techniques and writing testing documentation
• Great communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team – bouncing ideas off colleagues and building consensus

Desirable (not essential):

• Experience with ag-Grid
• Single-page web applications
• Experience with FX, interest rates, equities, credit and commodity cash and derivative products

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Trade Support Engineer – London

A Global quantitative and systematic trading firm are looking for a Trade Support Engineer to join their team in London. This is a fantastic opportunity, not only to join a growing company that will reward your accomplishments, but also offer a highly competitive compensation package, with private health care, gym membership and flexible working for a great work/life balance.

What we are looking for:

• We are looking for a confident, responsive, and thoughtful individual with excellent communication skills.
• Someone who is passionate about system availability, continuously improving reliability and building comprehensive monitoring systems.
• You should have a technical background and have knowledge in Linux, Docker, and a decent level of Python development knowledge.
• You feel a great sense of responsibility for incident resolution and take pride in overall system stability.
• You will work with highly motivated developers and infrastructure engineers in a collaborative environment to provide hands-on support to the trading team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for live maintenance and support of the firm’s trading, research, and data infrastructure
• Provide first level support on Direct Market Access (DMA) feed handlers and Order Routing System (backend) for Front Office trading desks
• Streamlining Incident & Change management
• Handle trading system reference data change requests
• Manage delivery and problem resolution schedules and communicate progress with all stakeholders regularly
• Build and maintain tools and scripts central to the firm’s proprietary trading system
• Continually optimize trading application and operational infrastructure through automation

Skills & Experience:

• Proficiency in Bash, Python and/or C++
• Strong knowledge of scripting, Linux, and good network troubleshooting knowledge
• A self-motivated individual able to operate in a demanding and dynamic environment
• Knowledge of different Database Engines
• Strong face-to-face and written communication skills
• High sense of urgency when troubleshooting support requests from Trading Floor
• Experience with Windows and Desktop support

Desirable, but not essential:

• A background in a proprietary trading firm
• Trading Floor experience strongly preferred
• Knowledge of Front to Back trading life cycle
• Experience with Market Data Applications (Bloomberg, Refinitiv/Reuters)
• FIX Protocol

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.

The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.

A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.

Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
• Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
• A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
• Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
• Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
• Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
• Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
• Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
• An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way

Experience:

• Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
• Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
• Microservices
• Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
• Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
• Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
• History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
• Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Fantastic Opportunity for a Lead Java Software Engineer VP Level for one of the world’s leading Investment Banks. Leading a small team of 3 Java developers in London combined with global teams in in Singapore and New York.

The team works in partnership with Front Office stakeholders to build and implement the strategic platform for the Algorithmic Indices business. This is a hands-on development role that will allow the successful candidate the autonomy to deliver strategic market data pricing solutions within this key area of the firm.

It is expected that he successful candidate will have technical oversight of the platforms long term strategic direction including technology choices as the firm move on a cloud based architecture.

Experience of working with a front office trading desks would be beneficial Fixed Income/Equities or E-Trading experience. Computer Science or related degree.

Technical skills required:

- Proven track record in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST

- The latest Agile methodologies

- Interest in the latest technology stackes and how it can be integrated into the firms’ current set up

- Java Multi-Threading

- Proven experience for system design and architecture

- Excellent organisational and communications skills both written and verbal.

- Commercially driven and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

- Cloud architecture both Private and Public not a prerequisite to have prior experience but be williness to pick this up in the role

Desirable technical skills:

- Understanding or working knowledge of Python, React, would be an advantage.

- Java software delivery background gained in a front-office environment

- Understanding of Algorithmic indices and/or cross-asset derivatives / structured products

- AWS, GCP, Azure +

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McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

**Permanent positions**

£60k to £110k + package

**Fully REMOTE (inside UK)**

Sponsorship - NOT available

We are working with a rapidly growing cloud-based company. They are looking for up to ten (10x) Cloud / DevOps Engineers with various experience levels.

You will help with one of the largest, most cutting edge GCP (Google Cloud) migrations today!

Key Duties

• Day to day management of their distributed GCP platform
• Ensure the GCP platform is optimised and running efficiently
• Design, test, maintain and improve CI/CD microservice pipelines
• Expand the infrastructure to different regions and increase scalability
• Ensure good software engineering practice underpins the DevOps environment

Essential

• DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer background (or something similar)

• Commercial experience of GCP (Google Cloud Platform): GCE, GSC, KSM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, GKE, Stackdriver, IAM, et al.

Desirable

• Infrastructure as Code tools - Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Kubernetes experience

• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity etc.)

• GCP Certificates

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Mulitnational Retail Banking firm seek a number of expereinced Java Developers. Providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle with an emphasis on server side Java development. Multi year project working on the replacment of the firms core banking platfom. The vast majority of the work will be greenfield development. 1 Day per week in the office.

• Be able to function in a culture of Agile Development (Scrum/Kanban, Amigos, Estimating, Planning, Sprints, Demos, Retrospectives)
• BDD/Gherkin
• Be Delivery-focused
• Continuously seek to improve on Velocity, Lead/Cycle Time, Quality and Process.
• Estimating, planning, managing tasks and reporting on progress.
• Work with the Atlassian suite of Tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket) for tracking progress and KPI monitoring.
• Retail Digital Banking/Finance preferred
• Demonstrate server-side software coding maturity using Java 11+ but also knowledge of SQL (DB2 / SQL Server / Postgres preferred).
• Demonstrate excellent use of Design Patterns / Micro Services/ RESTful APIs
• Basic capability in UI Development using advanced JavaScript (React and Node.js preferred) HTML, CSS

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Senior React Native Developer

Location: London
Company Industry: Commercial Banking
Job Type: Contract Inside IR35
Day Rate: £800 - £850p/d
Duration: 6 month initial
Start Date: ASAP

We are currently searching for multiple React Native Developers for our commercial banking customer in London

• Expert in React Native development for Mobile Web Application (Runnning on IOS and Android) with proven experience of implementation and delivery.
• Expert in HTML React responsive web development
• Expert in Web Security (OAuth2, JWT)
• Expert in Api Consuming
• Strong knowledge of the release process of mobile application
• Strong knowledge of the testing process of mobile application
• Proven experience in technology, especially with the analysis, design, development and implementation of complex critical systems
• Several years software development experience with at least 3-5 years in an investment banking environment, or equivalent
• Experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams
• Excellent knowledge of programming best practices, design patterns etc.
• Experience in project and/or agile planning of project and development deliverables
• Knowledge of communications protocols and the uses of messaging
• A solid academic background preferably in engineering, sciences or economics

Key Technical Skills

• Typescript/Javascript + HTML
• Node
• Framework dependant : React or Angular
• Jenkins + BDD or TDD
• A passion for development and delivery of quality software

Specific finanical markets knowledge/experience is not required for this role. For more information please submit your CV or contact Charlie Warren.

React / Native / Mobile / Angular / JavaScript / Typescript / Node / iOS / Android
React / Native / Mobile / Angular / JavaScript / Typescript / Node / iOS / Android
React / Native / Mobile / Angular / JavaScript / Typescript / Node / iOS / Android
React / Native / Mobile / Angular / JavaScript / Typescript / Node / iOS / Android

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Expression Of Interest - React Developers / Front End Developers / JavaScript Developers

McGregor Boyall are currently recruiting multiple React and Front End Developers for our financial services customers in London, these are both contract and permanent positions all based in Central London. The majority of our roles have a 50/50 work from home/office split. All info provided on application.

Current day rates inside: Approx £800p/d
Current day rates outside: Approx £650p/d
Current Perm Salaries: Approx £90k - £150k

Key Skills Required:

Extensive development experience: JavaScript/React - Node and Angular are a bonus
Agile methodology
Financial services/banking application experience is a bonus

Companies: We are working with top tier banks, fintech organisations, financial services organisations

Start dates range between the start of May - August, please contact Charlie Warren at McGregor Boyall for further information.

JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End
JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End
JavaScript / React / Software Development / Programming / Front End

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.