Senior Java Engineer

Overview

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

Business Segment Overview

Retail: Empower individual investors – and yourself – in the world of retail through a range of different financial products rooted in innovation and market intelligence. From FX and CFDs to precious metals, master an exciting world of wealth management tools

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. The role will encompass architecture and development across all tiers of the application stack. You will be part of a talented engineer team that works on low-latency mission-critical applications. Roles and responsibilities include application architecture and development across full software development lifecycle from concept and design to testing, collaborating with like-minded engineers. Technically leading team of highly skilled software engineers, forging relationships with key stakeholders across diverse user base.

Primary duties will include:

• Primary focus on server-side development
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle working within Agile methodology
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs follow specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating new technology and presenting for architectural review
  
  
  

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• Extensive experience developing complex distributed event-based microservices using Java/Spring
• Extensive experience Designing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and high-performance Java applications.
• Experience developing Restful API’s, gRPC service
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Exposure with distributed messaging / streaming platforms (Apache Kafka)
• Experience build CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GHE)
• Experience with TDD/BDD, testing framework
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases SQL and No-SQL databases
• Experience working as part of global Agile team
• Knowledge of Reactive programming is beneficial
• Fluent English
  
  
  

What makes you stand out:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience ideally within Financial services, FinTech
• Experience with DataDog observability, APM, Alerting
• Open Policy Agent (OPA) experience
  
  
  

Education:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
  
  
  

Working environment:

• Hybrid (2 days from home, 3 days from the office)