Java Engineers - Features Team - Cutting Edge FinTech

As a member of the Features team, you will be building the product functionality that helps to
grow our client base and drive our business forwards. You will have the opportunity to:
• Write the code that powers our product - for example, interpreting customer data,
implementing new optimisations, integrating with internal analytics APIs and enhancing our
customer workflows.
• Build an in-depth understanding of how the financial analytics in our product provide value
to our clients. You will be exposed to both the low-level details of financial instruments,
valuations and methodologies, as well as the high-level business objectives that drive us.
• Collaborate with product managers and clients in order to fully understand customer
expectations and implement solutions which meet their requirements.
• Take ownership of client deliverables, be it small feature enhancements or larger pieces of
functionality. You will be involved in all stages of the delivery - from taking the
requirements to deploying the finished product into production and supporting it
afterwards.
• Become familiar with the AWS-based infrastructure on which our hosted services are run
and leverage our existing technology foundations in order to deliver functionality to our
clients.

TECHNOLOGIES
• Back-end: Java, Maven
• Web-based UI: Angular 11 (with TypeScript and SASS), ngrx/store, ag-grid
• Cloud infrastructure: AWS (including Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Aurora, API Gateway,
CloudFront, S3, SQS/SNS and KMS), DataDog, Terraform
• GitHub for our public and private code, pull requests for peer reviews

CHARACTERISTICS
• You have a strong focus on delivering business value and a desire to use your technical
skills to help contribute to the growth of the company.
• You primarily view technology as a means for solving problems and improving efficiency
in the real world.
• You aim to become an expert in any domain in which you work.
• You are detail oriented and strive to understand customer use cases; you consider it your
responsibility as a developer to ensure the code you write delivers value to users.
• You are eager to learn, not afraid to ask question and accept that sometimes it is more
efficient to ask your peers rather than try to solve every problem yourself.
• You actively consider the trade-off between effort and impact.
• You are looking for a small company environment, where the business is evolving, there are
opportunities to progress, and you are relied on to deliver critical business functionality.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Technical requirements
• You have a solid knowledge of Java fundamentals, including a broad understanding of
the standard language features and common frameworks; as well as experience of
using these in a professional environment.
• You have a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data
structures, algorithms, algorithmic complexity, and concurrency.
• You have worked as part of a delivery focussed product team and have delivered realworld
functionality to internal or external users. You have taken end-to-end ownership
of product features, including assisting with production issues.
• You have good problem-solving skills and a methodical approach to breaking down complex
problems, with the tenacity to see issues through to their conclusion, and ability to
communicate the outcome.

Desirable experience
• You have experience in building financial applications for business users.
• You have applied yourself to a complex domain and have acquired a deep
understanding through your development work; collaborating with non-technical users
to define requirements and deliver solutions.
• You have experience working with Camunda or another BPMN/workflow engine.
• You have some knowledge of derivatives trading; an understanding of the different
instruments traded in the capital markets and common pricing and risk metrics such as
NPV and VaR.
• You have prior experience working in a remote organisation.

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