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Senior/Staff Java Engineer at Devexperts

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AI summary: Senior/Staff Java backend engineer designs and builds scalable, low-latency trading systems for a fintech platform, leading architecture decisions and mentoring the engineering team.

Description

Company Description

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to join the team.

Out client is a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. The project has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We ensure code quality by performing careful code reviews and various types of testing.

We expect the Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to:

  • Be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of the brokerage systems.
  • Work closely with the engineering team and other stakeholders.
  • Create scalable, low-latency, and highly available trading systems.

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

  • 6+ years of backend development experience with expertise in Java,
  • Background in financial technology or capital markets is required,
  • Solid understanding of system design principles,
  • Proven experience implementing sophisticated event-driven architectures with Kafka (or similar) and Kubernetes,
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD and automated testing frameworks,
  • Proficient in No SQL, SQL such as in Postgres/MySQL,
  • Solid understanding of TDD and how to write effective unit/integration tests,
  • B2+ English to be able to communicate with a US customer.

Nice-to-have skills:

  • Domain knowledge in options and margin trading
  • Experience with AWS stack,
  • Experience with Linux and writing scripts to extract and transform data,
  • Experience working in high-load systems,
  • Understanding trade-offs in distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience in concurrent programming.

Our interview process typically includes:

  1. Recruiter screening
  2. Tech interview (Devexperts)
  3. Tech interview (Client)
  4. Final call + offer (collect feedback + present the offer)

Additional Information

Care for the employees is one of Devexperts’ core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.

Work Regime Flexibility benefits:

  • Possibility ofhybrid/remote work mode,
  • Flexible working hours.

Health and recreation benefits:

  • Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year),
  • Medical insurance for the employees and children,
  • Reimbursement of fitness / Urban Sports Club Membership,
  • Meal allowance (Coverflex Card),
  • Flexpay system (Coverflex).

Facility benefits:

  • Modern office with new equipment,
  • PlayStation, table football, and musical instruments in the office,
  • Parking spaces/transport reimbursement,
  • Free drinks and snacks.

Community benefits:

  • Teambuilding activities,
  • Corporate parties,
  • Football Club,
  • Music club,
  • Speakers’ club,
  • Free admission to corporate external events,
  • Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs,
  • Personal branding development support.

Professional training benefits:

  • Local language courses for foreign employees,
  • Unlimited access to self-learning platforms,
  • Certification opportunities,
  • Mentorship Program.

Social benefits:

  • Parental bonus,
  • Pension plan (Coverflex),
  • Referral bonus,
  • Blood donation paid leave.